OOB man sentenced for rifle theft at plant

PORTLAND – An Old Orchard Beach man has been sentenced to 37 months in federal prison for stealing rifles from General Dynamics Systems in Saco.

Authorities said Charles Eugene Mewborn, 31, cut a hole in the fence around the plant and then cut through a wire cage that contained the weapons.

Mewborn had worked in the plant, but was not an employee at the time of the theft.

He was charged in February after police found some of the rifles in his car at the end of a chase that ended on the Maine Turnpike.