STRONG – A Rangeley man was charged with theft Tuesday after Franklin County sheriff’s deputies conducted an investigation into $847 stolen from Maine-ly Trees’ garage on Route 149 over the weekend, Lt. Niles Yeaton said.

Gregory A. “Rooster” Ferreri, 34, was arrested on a probation violation in connection with a January 2007 conviction of assault, criminal threatening and terrorizing, Yeaton said. He was then issued a summons at the jail on the misdemeanor theft charge, Deputy David Rackliffe said.

The garage manager discovered the money missing from an envelope in an unlocked cash box Monday afternoon, he said. Deputies recovered $590 of the missing money, Yeaton said.

The theft occurred between closing Friday and Monday morning, Yeaton said.

Detective David St. Laurent and Rackliffe investigated and interviewed suspects.

Ferreri was one of three employees who worked at the garage on Saturday, he said.