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.
Healy had worked as a fare-equipment maintenance worker for UTA since 2014 when, according to court documents, a neighbor spotted him carrying buckets from his UTA vehicle into the garage of his West Jordan home, then converting large amounts of coins to cash in a Walmart coin-exchange machine.