\nFALLON \u2014 A Nevada Department of Transportation employee in Fallon has been charged with using a state credit card to support his gambling habit.<\/p>\n
\n\tTal Pierre Smith is accused of using the credit card to buy about $250,000 worth of items he later pawned or sold to pay for the activity.<\/p>\n
\tA six-count indictment was filed against Smith this week in New River Township Justice Court in Fallon, the Nevada Appeal reported.<\/p>\n
\tAccording to the complaint, Smith made repeated illegal purchases over a three-year period ending last December and concealed them by altering receipts and other records.<\/p>\n
\tThey were discovered when a chain saw was delivered to the transportation department’s Fallon facility while Smith was on a hunting trip. Transportation department officials discovered the invoice had been altered, and an investigation was launched.<\/p>\n
\tFallon police assisted in the investigation and generated a list of 76 transactions at pawnshops and secondhand equipment businesses throughout western Nevada.<\/p>\n
\tAttorney General’s Investigator Wayne Fazzino, in a declaration of probable cause, said Smith told him "’he has a gambling problem and that he used the monies he generated from NDOT purchases to fund his gambling addiction."<\/p>\n
\tSmith was charged with four counts of theft and one count each of misconduct by a public officer and fraudulent appropriation of property, all felonies. The theft charges, which are the most serious, each are punishable by one to 10 years in prison.<\/p>\n
\tSmith’s home telephone has been disconnected, and it wasn’t clear whether he has an attorney.<\/p>\n
\tAccording to court records, state investigators recovered more than a dozen tools from Smith’s property that he had kept.<\/p>\n
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