Former Covina police records supervisor acused of stealing fees

In addition to stealing parking and impound fees, the former employee is also accused of hiding a police report of her son-in-law’s arrest for DUI and hit-and-run, effectively preventing his prosecution. Here’s more from Ruby Gonzales’ story:


COVINA – A former police records supervisor
was arrested Thursday on suspicion of stealing $342,000 in city funds
that came from parking meters, parking fines and impound fees.

Louise Vance-Wasilchin, also known as Mary Louise Wasilchin,
58, was arrested in her Upland home after a seven-month investigation
that started when authorities were tipped off by finding 1,000 quarters
in her car while investigating an accident.

The District Attorney’s Public Integrity Division charged
Wasilchin with one count of misappropriation of public funds and one
count of secretion, or hiding, of a public record.

Prosecutors say the money, allegedly stolen over three years,
from Jan. 1, 2008 to May 5, 2011, also came from the sales of overnight
parking permits and copies of police reports.

“She betrayed the organization, the city, the public. What she did was beyond criminal,” police Chief Kim Raney said.

Part of Wasilchin’s duties as records supervisor, a job she
took in 1997, was to deliver the money that came from parking permits
and meters, impound fees and sale of copies of police reports to the
finance department.

Investigators allege Wasilchin logged part of the deposits on a
receipt she created and allegedly pocketed the rest of the money.

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