3 Copper Mountain Ski Resort Employees Arrested For Stealing Thousands In US Ski Team Gear (VIDEO)

Three Copper Mountain Ski Resort employees have been arrested for stealing more than $6,400 worth of US Ski Team gear, the Associated Press reports. The US Ski Team is training at the newly opened Copper Mountain Olympic training center.

According to Summit Daily, William Lancaster, 23, Ryan Lundquist, 23, and James Callahan, 25 were all charged with class four felony theft that could land them all in prison for up to six years with as much as $500,000 in fines. Lancaster and Lundquist admitted to stealing jackets, pairs of gloves, Under Armor brand clothing from the Ski Team conference room while Callahan was the lookout.

The US Ski Team said that the gear was brand new, but when the stolen gear was recovered it was mostly unusable -- the theives had tried to remove US Ski Team logos from the gear and nearly destroyed it in the process, 7News reports.

Most of the stolen items were found in Lancaster's apartment and several other pieces of stolen gear were found in a nearby Dumpster, 9News reports.

Lundquist, one of the three arrested, says on his Facebook page that he's a "Lifty," a lift operator, at Copper Mountain resort and has been since November of 2010. He also states that he's "living the life that I love."

Comments

[1differentdrummer]

04:19 AM on 11/17/2011

And they failed the IQ test, too.

[Fennis]

01:46 AM on 11/17/2011

Classic ski bums...

[SteveDenver]

01:00 AM on 11/17/2011

Those sentences should be cut in half: Three years in prison... with no pants. What a trio of idiots.

[Mark Montgomery]

06:11 PM on 11/16/2011

Looks like the bros aren't stoked. "Hey bro are you stoked?" "No bro not stoked. Got caught bro".

[Fletch55]

03:16 PM on 11/16/2011

Lol just from the pictures you know the Landcaster kid is snitching on everyone to save his butt lol

[Durango]

03:15 PM on 11/16/2011

Not sure you even get a view of the mountains from the Big House any more.

He will be leading the life he hates.

[nutsaccoupe63]

12:55 PM on 11/16/2011

HE'S GOING TO BE LIVING THE LIFE IN PRISON LOLLLLLLLLLLLLLLLLL

hey kid,, ever watch oz?

[powder chowder]

12:42 PM on 11/16/2011

"living the life" in prison now. dumbies.

[Fletch55]

03:16 PM on 11/16/2011

Nope not prison more then likely a fine and probation.

[sharpstick]

12:31 PM on 11/16/2011

But lie a country into a war that ki//s hundreds of thousands of innocent people and........................................nothing.

Not even an investigation.

Something is seriously F'd up here.

[bptrav11]

12:45 PM on 11/16/2011

What does this post have to do with the article?

[sharpstick]

12:47 PM on 11/16/2011

Our justice system is broken.

[Israel4Ever]

12:47 PM on 11/16/2011

So your basic premise is that we should encourage people to steal from our national amateur atheletes because bigger crimes have taken place. I have a better idea...why don't we give them your home address and you can balance the scales of justice with your television, ipad, and winter gear...

There is something heinous about stealing from Olympic atheletes...not dead soldiers in a foreign land heinous, but heinous nonetheless. This sort of behavior should be discouraged...these sorts of people should be punished...

[sharpstick]

12:53 PM on 11/16/2011

If you can't respond without creating a straw man don't bother.

[Figure]

12:21 PM on 11/16/2011

These guys were in training to be scummy corporate greedy scum....or failing that , politicians...

[Durango]

03:16 PM on 11/16/2011

Lifties?

That is not exactly an entry level job for either politics or the corporate world.

[Rudderman]

12:14 PM on 11/16/2011

Too funny....
My son (a friend of Bode Miller) and I were just talking about the new US team training center at Copper this morning.
What did these guys think they were going to do with this stuff?
Oh, wait, they didn't think.
Never mind.

[gulfportian]

12:12 PM on 11/16/2011

These fine Young Republicans reaching out to Romney, Hatch, Huntsman to help them out of the situation. Face no jail time, just probation, and pay fines, which will come from daddy's bulging bank account. Typical white boys out of control.

[nutsaccoupe63]

12:57 PM on 11/16/2011

why bring politics and race into it??

seek the help you obviously need for that anger

[Fletch55]

03:17 PM on 11/16/2011

They actually seem more like democrat liberal Occupy loosers.You know do nothing but expect something for free and then just take it since your "owed"...I bet when asked why they blame Bush too lol loosers

[i the ys]

01:18 PM on 11/17/2011

"except" and ACCEPT have different meanings you know. Also, "your" is not the contraction for 'you are' which is written YOU'RE, just so you know for the next time you need a word. English is perhaps the most difficult language to learn even by those of us who have been misusing it all our lives.

[jellyj]

12:11 PM on 11/16/2011

He's a "lifty"? Classic, can't make this stuff up.

[i the ys]

01:21 PM on 11/17/2011

A CHAIR LIFT operator is referred to as a "lifty" so what is the big deal? A person who was hip was once referred to as a hippie, so?

[scooder]

12:07 PM on 11/16/2011

Dumb kids. Pretty stiff sentence and fine potential for a $6400 theft.

Meanwhile, the criminals involved in stealing BILLIONS from our retirement accounts, home equities, and ruining our career prospects, are living the good life in their gated communities with nary a risk of punishment.

[nutsaccoupe63]

12:59 PM on 11/16/2011

whats the saying,, if youre going to steal,, steal big

these clowns are lucky there arent any laws regarding stupidity

[SteveDenver]

01:02 AM on 11/17/2011

In a way, don't most laws exist because of stupidity?

[MHB48]

12:04 PM on 11/16/2011

Trash...pure & simple. I'm sure they are very popular with the "snow bunnies" now huh?