{"id":6227,"date":"2011-04-29T13:05:02","date_gmt":"2011-04-29T20:05:02","guid":{"rendered":"http:\/\/www.lewiscountysirens.com\/?p=6227"},"modified":"2011-04-29T13:05:02","modified_gmt":"2011-04-29T20:05:02","slug":"former-chehalis-official-pleads-not-guilty-to-theft-from-city","status":"publish","type":"post","link":"https:\/\/lewiscountysirens.com\/?p=6227","title":{"rendered":"Former Chehalis official pleads not guilty to theft from city"},"content":{"rendered":"<p><strong>By Sharyn\u00a0 L. Decker<br \/>\nLewis County Sirens news reporter<\/strong><\/p>\n<p>CHEHALIS &#8211; The city of Chehalis&#8217;s former building official pleaded not guilty yesterday to stealing money from a city safe.<\/p>\n<p>Jeffrey C. Shine, 41, was fired earlier this month following an investigation into the November 19 discovery.<\/p>\n<p>According to charging documents, an employee arrived to work at the community development building on the 1300 block of South Market Boulevard\u00a0 and discovered somebody had opened a safe and removed some of its contents.<\/p>\n<p>Five money bags there had been sealed and locked but someone cut their bottoms and also got into an envelope, according to the documents. The total is described as about $962.<\/p>\n<p>The charging documents don&#8217;t note if any money remained in the safe or if it was cleaned out.<\/p>\n<p>About $360 were funds raised for the medical needs of the daughter of Jeff and Angie Elder, a pair of police department employees, according to the documents.<\/p>\n<p>Charging documents say Shine took a polygraph test and then admitted he went into the building wearing gloves, opened the safe and took the money. They don&#8217;t indicate if it was after hours or not or offer any explanation.<\/p>\n<p>Shine, who lives in Longview, was 16-year city employee with the city. He was responsible for looking over construction sites and making sure code was followed. He was terminated April 1.<\/p>\n<p>He pleaded not guilty yesterday afternoon to second-degree burglary and second-degree theft.<\/p>\n<p>A trial date was set for the week of June 27 in\u00a0 Lewis County Superior Court.<\/p>\n","protected":false},"excerpt":{"rendered":"<p>By Sharyn\u00a0 L. Decker Lewis County Sirens news reporter CHEHALIS &#8211; The city of Chehalis&#8217;s former building official pleaded not guilty yesterday to stealing money from a city safe. Jeffrey C. Shine, 41, was fired earlier this month following an investigation into the November 19 discovery. According to charging documents, an employee arrived to work [&hellip;]<\/p>\n","protected":false},"author":2,"featured_media":0,"comment_status":"open","ping_status":"open","sticky":false,"template":"","format":"standard","meta":{"footnotes":""},"categories":[3],"tags":[9,10],"class_list":["post-6227","post","type-post","status-publish","format-standard","hentry","category-top-story","tag-by-sharyn-l-decker","tag-news-reporter"],"_links":{"self":[{"href":"https:\/\/lewiscountysirens.com\/index.php?rest_route=\/wp\/v2\/posts\/6227","targetHints":{"allow":["GET"]}}],"collection":[{"href":"https:\/\/lewiscountysirens.com\/index.php?rest_route=\/wp\/v2\/posts"}],"about":[{"href":"https:\/\/lewiscountysirens.com\/index.php?rest_route=\/wp\/v2\/types\/post"}],"author":[{"embeddable":true,"href":"https:\/\/lewiscountysirens.com\/index.php?rest_route=\/wp\/v2\/users\/2"}],"replies":[{"embeddable":true,"href":"https:\/\/lewiscountysirens.com\/index.php?rest_route=%2Fwp%2Fv2%2Fcomments&post=6227"}],"version-history":[{"count":2,"href":"https:\/\/lewiscountysirens.com\/index.php?rest_route=\/wp\/v2\/posts\/6227\/revisions"}],"predecessor-version":[{"id":6229,"href":"https:\/\/lewiscountysirens.com\/index.php?rest_route=\/wp\/v2\/posts\/6227\/revisions\/6229"}],"wp:attachment":[{"href":"https:\/\/lewiscountysirens.com\/index.php?rest_route=%2Fwp%2Fv2%2Fmedia&parent=6227"}],"wp:term":[{"taxonomy":"category","embeddable":true,"href":"https:\/\/lewiscountysirens.com\/index.php?rest_route=%2Fwp%2Fv2%2Fcategories&post=6227"},{"taxonomy":"post_tag","embeddable":true,"href":"https:\/\/lewiscountysirens.com\/index.php?rest_route=%2Fwp%2Fv2%2Ftags&post=6227"}],"curies":[{"name":"wp","href":"https:\/\/api.w.org\/{rel}","templated":true}]}}