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THE FORMER CHIEF OF THE LeROY FIRE DISTRICT in western New York was sentenced yesterday to serve 90 days in jail and be on probation for 5 years for stealing from his FD.

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Stephen C. Smith

Stephen C. Smith was chief of the all-volunteer department from 2004 until January 2008 when he was arrested after a police investigation revealed he used the department credit card to make purchases for himself, used department gasoline for his personal car and added a personal cellular phone onto the district bill. This past October, following a plea-bargaining agreement Smith pleaded guilty to 2nd-degree forgery in exchange for dropping several other related charges which included two counts each of first-degree tampering with public records, second-degree forgery and falsifying business records, and one count each of defrauding the government, grand larceny, and official misconduct.

WIVB-TV Ch. 4 Buffalo has this brief video report on yesterday’s action:

The Batavia Daily News has the STORY.
LeRoy Fire District WEBSITE.

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A MATHEWS COUNTY, VIRGINIA, GRAND JURY HANDED DOWN an indictment yesterday (Tuesday) charging a retired Virginia state trooper with stealing more than $100,000 from the Mathews County Volunteer Fire Department.

WTKR-TV Ch. 3 Norfolk reports:

Paul J. Reardon, described by his neighbors as a “law-and-order” guy and an upstanding member of the community, will face two felony charges. State police search warrants obtained last week by NewsChannel 3 show Reardon, the only person with access to the fire department bank accounts, wrote several checks to “cash” and made other unauthorized withdrawals in 2009. The warrants said new leaders on the fire department’s board discovered the missing money, asked for an investigation, and fired Reardon.

Tax records also obtained by NewsChannel 3 show Reardon prepared and signed the returns for the fire department that show the organization was in financial trouble, operating with a $183,000 deficit. The tax records also show the cost of fire-and-rescue service in Mathews jumped $119,000 in a single year. State police said the amount stolen from the fire department last year was $110,000.

Earlier this month, police seized the fire department’s account records from Bank of America and Chesapeake Bank, both in Mathews, as well as Reardon’s personal account records. Police also seized boxes of records from Reardon’s home.

Reardon had served as the VFD’s treasurer for 30 years.

WTKR-TV also filed this video report:

Posted by firegeezer on January 20, 2010 • Filed under: Fire Rescue Topics, Law & Justice, News, Videos, crime • Tagged: conviction, LeRoy Fire District, Mathews Coounty Virginia, Paul J. Reardon, state trooper, Stephen C Smith, treasurer

Denver Paramedic Sentenced to 12 Years for Assaulting Patient

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ALAN MILLER, 31, WAS SENTENCED TO 12 years in prison following his conviction for assaulting and severely injuring a patient in his Denver Health EMS ambulance last January.

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The patient was suffering from seizures and was being transported under restraint to the hospital, but when they arrived at the ER the patient had a fractured skull, nose and eye socket, inuries that he didn’t have when they left the patient’s home. Miller at first said that he was only defending himself after the patient had broken free from his restraints. He later claimed that the injuries had been inflicted by a police officer that had responded to assist him.

KUSA-TV Ch. 9 REPORTS (HERE):

According to court documents first obtained by 9Wants to Know, Miller responded to a call at the home of Tim Smith in southwest Denver on Jan. 3. Smith had suffered a seizure.

When the ambulance arrived at Denver Health Medical Center, Smith’s skull was fractured and his nose and eye socket were broken. Smith’s wife said he didn’t have those injuries when he left their house.

During the trial, prosecutors presented evidence from another paramedic who was on the call that night. Shaunna King told investigators Miller overreacted to Smith’s struggling against his restraints. She said she witnessed Miller repeatedly punch the patient in the head and stomach.

A police internal affairs investigation concluded that the officer had not contributed to the incident or injuries.

Miller was convicted last month of 2nd-degree assault causing serious bodily injury and filing a false report. Yesterday, Friday a judge sentenced him to 12 years imprisonment noting that not only did Miller injure someone he was supposed to be caring for, he also had tried to avoid responsibility by blaming the assault on an innocent law enforcement officer.

Posted by firegeezer on November 14, 2009 • Filed under: EMS Topics, Law & Justice, ambulances • Tagged: Alan Miller, assault, conviction, Denver, Denver Health, paramedic, prison

Historic Site Arsonist Convicted

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IN JULY AND AUGUST OF 2007, TWO MASSACHUSETTS men went on an arson spree in the Worcester area. They burned down a vacant paper mill, a railroad bungalow, a farmer’s barn and most notably, the 18th-century home of Mary Sawyer, the woman whose pet lamb followed her to school one day and let to the famed American nursery rhyme Mary Had a Little Lamb.

The arsonists, John Drousseau and Michael Dreslinski were caught primarily from being tracked by a GPS transmitter that had been secretly placed on their truck through a court order relating to a separate criminal acitivity. They were arraigned on the arson charges in February, 2008, and have been incarcerated since.

This past Monday, following an 11-day trial, Dreslinski was found guilty by a jury on four arson counts. His partner Rousseau will be tried on the same charges next week. The judge postponed sentencing until after Rousseau’s trial is completed.

The Republican has the STORY.
The Worcester Telegram & Gazette has a longer REPORT HERE.

Firegeezer’s earlier posting from February, 2008, includes a brief history and photo of Mary Sawyer’s cabin HERE. We have also included a movie clip of Thomas Edison reciting the poem as he did when he made his first-ever phonograph recording.