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Embezzlement Arrest

By KRWG News

Deming – A former chief for the Florida Mountain Volunteer Fire Department in southern New Mexico is under arrest.

Luna County sheriff's investigator Bobby Brookhouser says 43-year-old Tony Anderson was arrested last week in Bernice, La., where he moved last November.

Anderson is charged with one count of embezzling more than $2,500 and less than $20,000.

The charges came after a December inventory discovered items were missing from the volunteer fire department.

Brookhouser says the missing items included a mobile radio, a light bar, two hand-held radios and three medical trauma bags.

He says a warrant was issued last week.

Anderson awaits extradition from Louisiana.

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Information from: Headlight, http://www.demingheadlight.com

Copyright 2011 The Associated Press.