A now-former Winchester Fire Department employee is facing charges after fraudulently claiming overtime over the past 13 months.
In a release, Winchester Chief of Police Travis Thompson reports that Winchester Fire Department Chief Christopher Whiteley approached Thompson on Wednesday regarding potential fraudulent payroll by a WFD employee.
A self-initiated audit by WFD had revealed that the employee, Kenneth Ball, had claimed “a large of amount of overtime” and that he was “not actually at work when claiming the overtime.”…