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The Marcellus police chief's arrest Wednesday is the second in an investigation into whether officers falsified time sheets at Marcellus and North Syracuse police departments.

David E. Wilkinson, 59, of Cicero, was suspended with pay from the Marcellus Police Department after being charged by the Onondaga County District Attorney's Office with fourth-degree grand larceny and defrauding the government, both felonies, and official misconduct, a misdemeanor.

"Chief Wilkinson has repeatedly and unequivocally assured me that he has done nothing wrong and that, at worst, there had been some innocent and accidental clerical errors in his record-keeping," said Marcellus Mayor Michael Plochocki.

"Moreover, he has assured me that since he first became aware of such errors approximately a year ago, he revamped his bookkeeping methods to insure that such errors ceased," he said.

Court records state that an analysis of 2000 to 2006 time sheets from Marcellus and North Syracuse police departments show 115 occasions, representing 188 hours, in which Wilkinson recorded being at both departments at the same time. Fifty-three of the 115 time sheets, carrying a total of 85 hours, were not signed by Wilkinson.

Wilkinson is salaried at $48,000 a year as full-time chief of Marcellus.

"I have always found him to be a man of great integrity and an outstanding police chief," Plochocki said. "In fact, he has often put in extra hours without compensation."

The district attorney's office began the investigation after

in 1981. Barbara moved to Dryden with her first husband, Robert Lathrop, a farmer and auctioneer who died of cancer in 1984.

They eventually remarried, Duke to Mary Donohue Green and Barbara to Donald Brown. The second marriages, Barbara and Duke recalled, were also warm and strong - until, once again, they both lost spouses they loved. Donald died in 2004. Mary died last March, after a long struggle with cancer.

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