A man is accused of trying to steal gas from a gas station but, not from the pump. When most people go to a gas station to fill up, they get gas out of a pump. One man in Henrico allegedly found a way to steal gas out of the ground.

It happened late one night earlier this month at a gas station near Cox and Broad. A man in a black van pulled in and put up the hood, almost like he was having car trouble. Then, he backed the van up over one of the lids to the underground tanks.

A suspicious clerk called police, who came and questioned the man, and determined he was just about to begin siphoning gas. How would he store it, he had two tanks in the van, one that would hold 150 gallons. The other could hold 350 gallons. "What he would do was pull the van on the lot, pull the hood to make it look like he was working on it. All the while, he's in there hooking up this pump to siphon the gas from the underground tanks," says Henrico Police Lt. Doug Perry.

Edsel Dacons, 47, is charged with attempting to commit a misdemeanor. But, police say he's suspected in some similar gas thefts from other stations. Police say this case remains under investigation.