basically In the construction field, we had a job finished and there was scrap copper left no one said prior to or during the job said that all scrap was to be returned. Other jobsites have taken the scrap also. we let it sit for a few days our foreman of the job said we could do what we want with it; we were leaving the job for a week so we so we divided it up we had about 12 pieces that were divied up and cut down larger pieces and divided them up.

well now the company wants it and is threatening to charge everyone with grand theft if they dont agree to the terms they set which is paying it back at supplier value they were guessing on the lengths also. they dont even want the copper back just the money. Like stated above other jobsites take their scraps, one job is almost complete and has had a year worth of scraps with the company not wanting any of that.

my question is can they do that? with our foreman saying we all can have it and how other jobs take their scraps?