One-time UTA worker charged with multiple counts of misusing public money

David Leroy Healy, 54, of West Jordan was charged Tuesday with theft, money laundering and misuse of public funds. Police allege that while working as a Utah Transit Authority employee, Healy pilfered coins from bus fare boxes, exchange them for paper money and deposited the funds into his bank accounts. Salt Lake County prosecutors filed criminal charges Tuesday against a one-time Utah Transit Authority employee, alleging he pilfered thousands of dollars in buckets of coins from UTA bus fare boxes and exchanged them for spending cash at an area Walmart.

David Leroy Healy, 54, of West Jordan, faces one felony charge each of theft and money laundering and seven counts of misusing public funds.

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