By AP News, 11-02-09
A former chief of the Somers Volunteer Fire Department has pleaded not guilty to stealing over $13,000 from the department.
Robert W. Kienas Sr., pleaded not guilty to one count of felony theft during his arraignment in District Court on Oct. 22.
Prosecutors say the 50-year-old Kienas misappropriated donations by writing checks to himself, altering deposit slips to get cash back and making cash withdrawals from a department bank account from 2005 through 2007. Kienas was chief from 2001 through 2007.
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