Tag Archives: theft

A fire chief who has been charged with stealing from a fire department account will be keeping his position for the time being. George Russell, the fire chief in Thorndike, has been charged with stealing $5,100 from the Thorndike firemen's account.

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A lieutenant from Clovis, New Mexico has been charged with larceny for allegedly taking items from a vehicle at the scene of an accident. Lt. Christopher Elam, 32, is accused of taking three bottles from a vehicle involved in an accident earlier this month. One of the bottles was an alcoholic beverage, one was a non-alcoholic beverage, and one was seasoning.

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Additional details are emerging on the criminal charges facing Boston District Fire Chief Edward A. Scigliano IV, who was arraigned yesterday on charges of larceny and procurement fraud.

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Embattled Wilkes-Barre Township Fire Chief John Yuknavich, facing both state and federal charges that he stole funds from his fire department, has agreed to plead guilty to the federal charges and resign as fire chief. Yuknavich has reportedly also agreed to reimburse the fire company for $45,000, the amount he is believed to have taken.

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A Pennsylvania firefighter is accused of stealing rescue equipment from his fire department and selling it on eBay.

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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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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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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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Martin Pang, the convicted arsonist of the fire that killed four Seattle firefighters in 1995, has been accused of an elaborate scam to steal money from firefighters, their families, police officers and witnesses in the case. The FBI, state police ...

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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 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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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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Today’s burning question: I am a call firefighter, but because of a medical condition I can no longer respond to runs. The fire department has terminated me and demanded I return the department’s gear and equipment. I don’t think they ...

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On Friday, a Camden, New Jersey fire captain pled guilty to larceny charges for having stolen an undetermined amount of “house funds” that belonged to firefighters. Captain John Merklein was placed on probation as part of a plea agreement that ...

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