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Investigation continues into theft of $1,000 from police station
October 26, 2011The Conway Daily Sun, conwaydailysun.com
BYLINE: Erik Eisele
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Conway, NH
CONWAY — New details emerged this week about the theft inside the police department that occurred this past spring, but still no suspects have been identified.
The amount stolen, according to town officials, was $1,000.
It was cash, Conway Police spokesman Lt. Chris Perley said, held by a paperclip — no wallet, no envelope, no identifiers.
“It was just turned-in money,” he said. “That’s all it was.”
The cash was found property someone turned in to the department in case anyone came to claim it. It was being stored in the department’s secure evidence room.
Not returning found property is a crime in New Hampshire, but if property goes unclaimed for six months the person who found it can claim it.
The $1,000 this person found, however, disappeared from behind the department’s locked doors before the six-month period was up.
The money went missing in late March, at least two months after it was turned in. The department launched an internal investigation, and then in early April turned the case over to State Police.
“The case is still active and ongoing,” Perley said after speaking with State Police. “I don’t think it’s far from being closed.”
The person who turned the $1,000 in was entitled to the money if no one claimed it within six months. With the cash no longer sitting in the police evidence room, however, the department had to dip into its budget to pay the person.
The money came out of the police professional services line, town manager Earl Sires said, and it was paid on July 28.
For privacy reasons, officials withheld the identity of the individual who received the money.
Although these details answer several minor questions about the incident, the main question of who stole money from within a secure area inside the police department remains unanswered.
“It was clearly somebody within the police department, hence the reason there was an internal investigation,” chief Ed Wagner said when the incident was first made public, but “I have no concerns about anybody who works here.”
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Police in Conway, NH, investigating dept. theft
June 24, 2011The Boston Globe, www.boston.com
Conway, NH
CONWAY, N.H. — Police in New Hampshire are investigating the theft of a large amount of money from the Conway police department’s evidence room.
Conway Police Commissioner Theresa Kennett tells WMWV-FM radio that the incident was brought to her attention in April. She says she’s confident everyone’s questions will be answered once the investigation is complete.
She didn’t say how much money is thought to have been stolen or when it disappeared.
The investigation, which had not been made public, was recently leaked to media.
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Information from: WMWV-FM, http://www.wmwv.com/index.html
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Former NH detective sentenced for theft
May 24, 2011The Associated Press State & Local Wire, Foster’s Daily Democrat, fosters.com
SECTION: STATE AND REGIONAL
Farmington, NH
A former New Hampshire police detective has been sentenced to at least three months in jail for stealing nearly $4,000 from the Farmington police station’s evidence room.
Foster’s Daily Democrat reports 28-year-old Brendon June of Middleton was sentenced in Strafford County Superior Court on Monday on one count of theft. He was sentenced to a year in jail with nine months suspended.
The charge was the result of an investigation by the Attorney General’s Office regarding June’s activities while a detective with the Farmington Police Department. The investigation showed he stole $3,790 from the evidence room.
June has paid the money back, relinquished his certification as a police office, and resigned.
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