Berkshire businessman offers to help defrauded customers of stove company owner

Police say over 25 customers were cheated out of pellet stoves and wood pellets from a Hoosick Falls businessman. Forty-eight-year-old Dennis Murray of Hoosick Falls, owner of a wood pellet business, was arrested for taking payments for wood pellets and stoves -- and never filling the orders.

Upon news of Murray's arrest, a businessman from Pittsfield said he wanted to help out the customers who lost their money.

In a letter to the Hoosick Falls Police Chief Robert Whalen, Joseph Galok, owner of the Berkshire Fireplace Pool and Spa, said he was "willing to forfeit the profit on the units we have in stock to try to help as many of those customers as possible."

Any customers who were victimized can bring their paperwork from the Valley Hearth and Pellet Company to the Berkshire Fireplace Pool and Spa at 1402 North St. in Pittsfield.

"We will do whatever we can to assist them," Galok said in the letter.