Ex-manufacturing plant burglarized, arrests made

Two men found inside a former manufacturing plant in Westminster Saturday morning have been arrested and charged with burglary. Richard Thomas Petaccio of West Union and Joshua Martin Hardin of Seneca were arrested by the Oconee Sheriff’s Office on charges of first degree burglary, malicious injury to personal property, and possession of tools capable of criminal use. The crime scene was the 123/Sandifer Boulevard building which, for nearly a half century, was known as a golf ball plant.