Warwick City Hall. File photo.
WPRO Newsroom and the Associated Press
WARWICK, R.I. (AP) – A Rhode Island judge has dismissed a larceny charge against a Warwick Department of Public Works employee who had been accused of stealing from the city.
WPRI-TV reports that Judge Walter Stone has ruled that the state didn't establish probable cause for the allegations against Kenneth Naylor and granted Naylor's motion to dismiss the charge.
Warwick police accused Naylor in September 2011 of using city gasoline and city equipment for his personal use. He was charged with larceny and fired by the city, but he won his job back through arbitration.
Naylor's co-workers testified that it was common practice for Warwick public works employees to borrow city equipment for their own purposes.
City officials declined to comment on the dismissal of the larceny charge or the unwritten borrowing policy.
