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WA officer to plead guilty of stealing from fund

The Columbian
Published: March 14, 2012, 5:00pm

SEATTLE (AP) — A Lakewood police officer will plead guilty to embezzling more than $120,000 from a fund for families of four colleagues who were killed while on duty.

Documents show officer Skeeter Timothy Manos will plead guilty to federal charges Friday in Tacoma.

Prosecutors had said 34-year-old Manos spent the money he embezzled in gambling trips to Las Vegas and shopping sprees purchases of several thousand dollars at Costco and Home Depot

The public contributed more than $3.2 million to the families of the four Lakewood officers who were shot to death by convict Maurice Clemmons at a coffee shop while they were beginning their shifts. Clemmons fled the scene, sparking a statewide manhunt that ended when a Seattle police officer shot and killed him two days later.

Documents show Manos began scheming to divert the money just seven weeks after the Nov. 29, 2009 shooting.

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