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Fire alarm dispatcher who works on Staten Island arrested on forgery charges
by Staten Island Advance
Tuesday July 14, 2009, 4:08 PM
The Staten Island Dispatch Center on Slosson Avenue in Castleton Corners.
A fire alarm dispatcher who works on Staten Island submitted five bogus letters to the FDNY to excuse absences from work, collecting $1,440 in sick pay he should not have received, a Department of Investigation probe found.
Melvin Hill, 37, of Elmont, L.I., who has been employed by the FDNY since November 2001 and is currently assigned to the Staten Island Dispatch Center on Slosson Avenue, has been arrested for allegedly submitting the fraudulent letters between October and June.
The letters -- Civilian Medical Documentation forms -- claimed he missed work because he was under the treatment of a physician.
Hill makes $50,120 a year.
He was charged with five counts of second-degree criminal possession of a forged instrument; one count of fourth-degree grand larceny, and five counts each of falsifying business records in the first degree and offering a false instrument for filing in the first degree.
"Submitting fake medical notes to get paid for time off is not only a bad idea, it is a crime," said DOI Commissioner Rose Gill Hearn. "With these charges, this individual has also put a good-paying, city job at risk."
by Staten Island Advance
Tuesday July 14, 2009, 4:08 PM
The Staten Island Dispatch Center on Slosson Avenue in Castleton Corners.
A fire alarm dispatcher who works on Staten Island submitted five bogus letters to the FDNY to excuse absences from work, collecting $1,440 in sick pay he should not have received, a Department of Investigation probe found.
Melvin Hill, 37, of Elmont, L.I., who has been employed by the FDNY since November 2001 and is currently assigned to the Staten Island Dispatch Center on Slosson Avenue, has been arrested for allegedly submitting the fraudulent letters between October and June.
The letters -- Civilian Medical Documentation forms -- claimed he missed work because he was under the treatment of a physician.
Hill makes $50,120 a year.
He was charged with five counts of second-degree criminal possession of a forged instrument; one count of fourth-degree grand larceny, and five counts each of falsifying business records in the first degree and offering a false instrument for filing in the first degree.
"Submitting fake medical notes to get paid for time off is not only a bad idea, it is a crime," said DOI Commissioner Rose Gill Hearn. "With these charges, this individual has also put a good-paying, city job at risk."