Dental tech caught pawning dental gold

The Sarasota County Sheriff’s Office arrested Isaiah Fast, 39, Thursday for stealing and pawning dental grade metals from the laboratory at which he was employed.

Fast’s name was listed on the Sheriff Office’s pawn database after he sold 38 pieces of dental grade gold Friday, Dec. 9, and Monday, Dec. 12, at Money Pro Pawn on Bee Ridge Road. The gold was still clean– it hadn’t been used for any dental procedures. The small gold squares were stamped with “MAXIGOLD.”

Fast, an Englewood resident, was a dental technician at Brlit Dental Laboratory in Sarasota. The Sheriff’s Office called the owner of the lab, Frank Pechar, who then told the deputy that 60 pieces of gold and 240 pieces of silver palladium had gone missing. These metals were estimated at a $8,800 value. When asked, Pechar confirmed his gold pieces all bore the “MAXIGOLD” stamp.

A deputy in plain clothes waited at the pawn shop Wednesday, Jan. 14. Fast appeared and sold 18 pieces of gold. He tried to pawn the silver palladium, too, but the pawnbroker refused to buy it.

Fast was arrested Thursday afternoon with three counts of dealing stolen property and fraud for providing false ownership of pawned items.

Fast’s bond is $90,000.