Police: Tarrytown Employee is Coin Thief

A Tarrytown DPW employee was arrested Thursday on charges of stealing coins from broken parking meters, Tarrytown police reported.

The arrest followed an investigation since late December, when police said they received an anonymous tip.

Jose Casiano, 35, of Tarrytown, was charged with:

• petty larceny and
• criminal possession of stolen property in the fifth degree

after allegedly being found with $620 in coins.

Police told LoHud.com that someone claimed they saw Casiano stealing from village parking meters before Christmas.

Police said they then saw Casiano carrying a plastic bag full of coins into his home. He then admitted he had stolen the coins that day and one time before, Tarrytown Lt. William Herguth told LoHud.com.

Village Administrator Mike Blau told LoHud.com that Casiano had been employed by the village since 2001, and had been filling in for the regular meter collector.

“It was determined he took that money instead of turning it into the village coffers,” Herguth said.

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In other parking meter theft stories, there was this on Port Chester Patch in 2011: Over the course of the year, Port Chester had its share of scandal with hundreds of thousands of dollars in missing parking meter money. One night, thieves took a more direct route—instead of taking the money inside, they took the entire meter.