City worker charged with using funds

Tuesday, April 13, 2004 | 10:45 a.m.

A former Las Vegas department supervisor faces an April 26 felony arraignment in Justice Court on charges he used city funds for personal use.

Charles Baringer, a former maintenance supervisor in the city's Field Operations Department, is scheduled to appear before Justice of the Peace Nancy Oesterle at 7:45 a.m., according to Justice Court records.

City officials allege Baringer used a city "purchase card" -- a credit-card-like device issued to supervisors to buy items for city work from an approved list of stores -- to purchase $1,700 in supplies for his concrete business. He was arrested by city marshals on March 25 and charged with unlawful use of public money, officials said.

City spokesman David Riggleman said Baringer, who had worked for the city since July 1984, resigned in lieu of termination and that the city recovered the money from Baringer's paycheck.

Riggleman said Baringer's unauthorized use of the purchase card was discovered when a vendor's name on an invoice did not match the store from which items were bought.

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