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Former Ridgewood Public Works Inspector Gets Probation For Stealing $460,000 In Quarters

A Public Works Inspector who had worked for Ridgewood for ten years pleaded guilty and was sentenced with probation.

Former Ridgewood public works inspector Thomas Rica was sentenced to five years’ probation after admitting stealing $460,000 in quarters over a two year period.

Rica was arrested in January 2013 and pleaded guilty this past March to four counts of theft as part of a plea deal,  according to cbslocal.com.

Read more at: http://newyork.cbslocal.com/2014/07/09/former-ridgewood-n-j-village-worker-gets-probation-for-steali...

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