Theft in the Volunteer Fire Service

The former treasurer of a Kentucky volunteer fire company who is already facing embezzlement charges is now being sued by the fire company’s insurer in an effort to recover the stolen funds. Last year Terry Triplett, an assistant chief and ...

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A Pennsylvania volunteer fire company that has been the victim of insider theft on two occasions last year is now being sued for defaulting on its mortgage. On Friday, Fairway Consumer Discount Company filed suit against the Rice Township Volunteer ...

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A Nebraska fire department is suing its former fire chief to recoup funds the chief allegedly stole. The Southeast Rural Fire Protection District, aka Southeast Fire & Rescue, has filed suit in Lancaster County District Court against former fire chief ...

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The treasurer of a New Jersey fire district has been charged with stealing $700,000 from the district. Charles Hoens III is facing felony theft offenses for swindling the funds from South Brunswick Fire District 3 between October 2009 and November ...

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Another volunteer fire company has found itself to be the victim of insider theft, this time by the fire company’s treasurer. Andrew Cushman, treasurer for the Plymouth Volunteer Fire Department in Chenango County, New York is facing felony charges of ...

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The former treasurer of a volunteer fire company in Montgomery County, Pennsylvania has been accused of stealing $250,000 from the fire company over a six-year period. Ronald Kenneth Nolan of the Upper Gwynedd Township Fire Company was arrested and charged ...

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ST. LOUIS, MO—Eric Hinson was sentenced to 35 months in prison on mail fraud and multiple tax evasion charges involving his misuse of approximately $593,236 of St. Clair Fire Protection District funds between January 2006 and September 2011. As a ...

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The former fire chief from Bangor, Alabama was arrested today and charged with two counts of first degree theft arising out of his misuse of department funds while in office. Michael Claude Watson, 45, was the fire chief of the ...

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The treasurer of the Hershey Volunteer Fire Department has been charged with stealing $129,864 from the fire company over a little more than a year’s time. Thaddeus Lee Austin, 30 was arraigned today on charges of theft by deception and ...

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The Attorney General for the State of New Jersey has filed suit to recover two SUVs allegedly purchased with funds stolen by the treasurer of a volunteer fire department. The strange story began last February when State Police charged Lisa ...

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The former fire chief of a Texas volunteer fire department pled guilty to embezzling $20,000 from the department.  So did his wife. Ernest Roland Chapman and his wife, Donna Kay Chapman, pled guilty this week to the charges in 42nd ...

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Three volunteer firefighters in three different states are in the news today for misconduct, and the charges are no surprise: arson and theft from a volunteer fire department. In Idaho, an 18-year-old volunteer firefighter has been arrested for setting a ...

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Two fire departments in opposite ends of the country are in the headlines today with the same problem: insider theft.

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The treasurer of a West Virginia volunteer fire department has been charged with embezzling $88,000 from the organization between 2009 and 2011. Mary Elizabeth Taylor, who was treasurer of the Barboursville Volunteer Fire Department, is accused of stealing $88,065.42 over ...

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