Police: Trumbull Realtor stole competitor's 'for sale' signs

BRIDGEPORT -- A Trumbull Realtor has been charged with stealing a competitor's "for sale" signs from the front lawns of homes.

Robert Toth, 54, of Shelton, owner of American Home Realty on Arden Road in Trumbull, was charged Wednesday with third-degree larceny and first-degree criminal trespass.

According to police, in September, Jihad Shaheer, the owner of U.S. Asset Realty in Stratford, complained that his signs had been stolen from more than a half-dozen sites in Bridgeport and from in front of two homes in Stratford.

Police said they later determined that Toth, who had worked for Shaheer before opening his own realty company, had been taking the signs.

Toth declined comment.

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