New Castle Employee Charged With Theft

Posted: 5:18 pm EDT May 21, 2009Updated: 5:47 pm EDT May 21, 2009

NEW CASTLE, Pa. -- A New Castle city employee was charged with 350 felony counts of forgery and theft.The city said Nancy Miles worked for the finance department for 30 years.In 2004, police said something didn’t look right. When they investigated, they said Miles stole $30 thousand over a four-year period of time.Police allege Miles was paying herself twice.They said she used her status in the payroll division to do it unnoticed for years.According to the criminal complaint, Miles claims she did nothing criminal. She called them loans, and said they were a common procedure in the department.This is the second public official in trouble in the last few months. Former parking authority director Gary Stone was charged with stealing $300,000 dollars in meter money.

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