An Olyphant man faces multiple felony charges after police say he engaged in business practices that amounted to theft of $145,000 from customers during a period of just over a year, according to a criminal complaint.<\/p>\n
Carl Ryan Graziano Jr., owner of Nationwide Truck Parts LLC in Taylor, is charged with theft by unlawful taking, theft by deception, deceptive business practices and criminal use of a cellphone.<\/p>\n
The business advertised same-day shipping online for heavy truck parts, commercial diesel engines and transmissions, but then failed to deliver the items timely, according to the criminal complaint filed by Lackawanna County Detective Mark Murray, a member of the Pennsylvania State Police Eastern Auto Theft Task Force.<\/p>\n
Graziano, 39, also routinely collected full payments from customers via wire transfer or credit cards, but then failed to deliver the merchandise, make items available for pickup or issue refunds, police said.<\/p>\n
Melissa Marino, a receptionist at the business, told police Graziano instructed her to tell customers items were in stock even if they weren\u2019t.<\/p>\n
He also directed her to keep unavailable items on the website and then charged a 20% restocking fee for items that were never delivered.<\/p>\n
He regularly avoided customer calls, police said.<\/p>\n
The police affidavit details nine businesses that made a total of $145,000 in payments between April 2025 and August 2026 and never received ordered items or refunds.<\/p>\n
Among the victims was Thomas Sanderfoot of Sanderfoot Wind, who paid $22,724 on April 25, 2025, for a Cummins X15 engine, and Armen Mirzoyan, who paid $18,913 on March 19, 2026, for a Paccar MX13 engine. Neither received an engine.<\/p>\n
A preliminary hearing is scheduled for 11 a.m. on Oct. 27 before District Judge George Seig.<\/p>\n","protected":false},"excerpt":{"rendered":"An Olyphant man faces multiple felony charges after police say he engaged in business practices that amounted to…\n","protected":false},"author":2,"featured_media":312839,"comment_status":"","ping_status":"","sticky":false,"template":"","format":"standard","meta":{"footnotes":""},"categories":[15],"tags":[202,201,182,139,2120,28,178,180,179,4168,181],"class_list":["post-312838","post","type-post","status-publish","format-standard","has-post-thumbnail","category-scranton","tag-crime-and-public-safety","tag-lackawanna-county","tag-local-news","tag-news","tag-olyphant","tag-pennsylvania","tag-scranton","tag-scranton-headlines","tag-scranton-news","tag-taylor","tag-top-stories-stt"],"_links":{"self":[{"href":"https:\/\/www.newsbeep.com\/us-pa\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/posts\/312838","targetHints":{"allow":["GET"]}}],"collection":[{"href":"https:\/\/www.newsbeep.com\/us-pa\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/posts"}],"about":[{"href":"https:\/\/www.newsbeep.com\/us-pa\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/types\/post"}],"author":[{"embeddable":true,"href":"https:\/\/www.newsbeep.com\/us-pa\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/users\/2"}],"replies":[{"embeddable":true,"href":"https:\/\/www.newsbeep.com\/us-pa\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/comments?post=312838"}],"version-history":[{"count":0,"href":"https:\/\/www.newsbeep.com\/us-pa\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/posts\/312838\/revisions"}],"wp:featuredmedia":[{"embeddable":true,"href":"https:\/\/www.newsbeep.com\/us-pa\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/media\/312839"}],"wp:attachment":[{"href":"https:\/\/www.newsbeep.com\/us-pa\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/media?parent=312838"}],"wp:term":[{"taxonomy":"category","embeddable":true,"href":"https:\/\/www.newsbeep.com\/us-pa\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/categories?post=312838"},{"taxonomy":"post_tag","embeddable":true,"href":"https:\/\/www.newsbeep.com\/us-pa\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/tags?post=312838"}],"curies":[{"name":"wp","href":"https:\/\/api.w.org\/{rel}","templated":true}]}}