Middlesex County Prosecutor’s Office

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                                *News Release*          Date: April 2, 2009                   

                                                      
 
 

       

 

    

 

Former volunteer fire chief is placed on probation for gasoline theft

 

Middlesex County Prosecutor Bruce J. Kaplan today announced that a part-time paid firefighter, who worked for Avenel Fire District No. 5 and also served as the department’s volunteer fire chief, has been placed on probation for one year and fined $500 for stealing a gallon of gasoline, valued at $4.

 

Frank Boyle, (DOB 11/24/54) of the Avenel section of Woodbridge, also was ordered to forfeit both public positions. The sentence was imposed on Friday, March 27, 2009, by Superior Court Judge Frederick DeVesa during a hearing in the Middlesex County Courthouse in New Brunswick.

 

Under a plea agreement negotiated with Middlesex County Assistant Prosecutor Brian D. Gillet, the defendant pleaded guilty on February 10, 2009, to a count of theft, a disorderly persons offense, admitting he took the gasoline on June 22, 2008.

 

Boyle was charged following an investigation by Woodbridge police Lt. Joseph Nisky, who was contacted by fire officials after they viewed a tape from a surveillance camera, showing Boyle entering a shed on the fire district’s property and emerging with the gasoline.