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09 June 2006
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Ex-chief charged in thefts

Allenstown – Authorities from the state Attorney General’s Office yesterday arrested former Allenstown police chief Jim McGonigle on charges of misusing seized drug money and cashing checks from two benevolent organizations.

McGonigle, 58, was arraigned at Concord District Court on three felony charges and was released on $30,000 personal recognizance bail. He was taken into custody around 1:15 p.m. at, office of his attorney, George T. Campbell III, on Barberry Lane, Concord.

McGonigle is charged with misapplying funds from the Allenstown Police Association and the Cadet Training Academy arm of the New Hampshire Association of Chiefs of Police. Officials said McGonigle wrote checks payable to himself and to cash from the two organizations. He also is accused of mishandling cash seized from an Allenstown drug arrest.

Authorities said the amount of money involved totaled nearly $10,000.

“I have nothing to say,” McGonigle said when reached at his Concord home yesterday.

Investigators searched McGonigle’s home in March and April, seizing his bank records, said John M. Gasaway Jr., an attorney with the Criminal Bureau of the Attorney General’s Office.

McGonigle asked for a leave of absence from the chief’s position on Feb. 28 after Allenstown Police forwarded to the Attorney General’s Office complaints of misconduct. He resigned in a one-sentence statement April 10, the same day he also stepped down as Concord city councilor.

Allenstown Police said they would not comment on the investigation into their former chief.

“We don’t have the authority to do that,” said Allenstown Police Chief Shaun Mulholland, who was appointed captain by McGonigle and was put in charge of the department by selectmen after McGonigle’s resignation. “It’s in the hands of the Attorney General.”

McGonigle had been the head of the Allenstown Police for the last decade. He is a retired Concord police officer and also served as an interim police chief in Canaan.

The Attorney General’s Office alleges McGonigle inappropriately handled more than $1,000 from the Allenstown department and the academy between April 2003 and February 2006, in addition to having unauthorized control over money from the Allenstown Police Association from January 2000 to June 2002.

Gasaway said the $10,000 bail per count he requested in court yesterday roughly equaled the restitution needed to account for the misappropriated funds. McGonigle is being charged with two counts of theft by misapplication and one count of theft by unauthorized taking.

Charges against Allenstown’s former police chief took the community of 5,000 by surprise. McGonigle spent 10 years shaping the Allenstown agency into a sophisticated operation and managed to keep officers on staff while larger departments offered higher pay, said Arthur Houle, a former selectman.

“I’m bummed out. I liked Jim and I thought he was doing a great job,” said Houle. “I can’t for the life of me figure out how this happened.

“He put together a police department we were all proud of,” Houle added. “He brought it into what it is today.”

The cadet academy, a week-long course open to teenagers, lists McGonigle as a former commander. The Attorney General’s Office declined to comment on McGonigle’s relationship with the cadet academy.

“This office is dedicated to the investigation and prosecution of matters of public integrity, including allegations of criminal conduct by law enforcement officers and other public officials,” Attorney General Kelly Ayotte said in a statement released yesterday. “Law enforcement officers are given a special trust, and abuses of that trust will be aggressively prosecuted.”

 

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