YOUNGSTOWN — A woman working for ABM parking lots downtown reported to police that a former employee was collecting cash payments from people parking in an ABM lot downtown Saturday night for the Y-Live Kid Rock concert.

The woman, from the ABM offices on Vindicator Square, said a man had quit the company in March, but he put a sign in an ABM parking lot at 311 W. Federal St. Saturday and was charging people $20 to park. All of the ABM lots were set up for electronic payments, not cash, she said.

She and the ABM enforcement staff were checking the parking lots and towing cars Saturday for people who had parked without paying when she saw the ex-employee’s sign and saw him collecting cash from customers.

She said the man apologized for “stealing from her.”

She ordered him to leave and had the man’s car towed. He later returned with a check for $540 and an apology letter, the woman said.

But the man probably made as much as $2,200 because there were 109 parking spots in the lot. She asked for a police report to be written “to prevent” the former employee “from repeating this action in the future,” the report states.

The report does not mention any further action being taken against the man.

erunyan@vindy.com