August 30, 2007

MANSFIELD — A former employee of a home inspection business based in the township was charged Tuesday with stealing approximately $12,000 in payments due his company, police said.

(The inspector), 37, of Chicopee, Mass., was charged with theft of funds intended for his former employer, Eastern Home Inspections of New Jersey, police said.

Investigators said (the inspector) collected payments for home inspections he performed for the company from June 2006 to July of this year and then deposited the funds into his own personal account to pay off debt. He was fired in June after the practice was discovered.

Mansfield Detective Brian J. Gerber investigated and filed criminal charges against (the inspector) on Tuesday. (The inspector) was then arrested and lodged in Burlington County Jail in Mount Holly on $1,000 bail, police said.