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Former Okla. Chief Indicted for Embezzlement

March 20, 2015

The Higgins Vol. Fire Dept. was disbanded by the chief in 2013.

Source The Oklahoman, Oklahoma City

The former chief of the Higgins Volunteer Fire Department has been charged with embezzlement.

In an indictment Thursday, the state’s multicounty grand jury alleged Curtis Gregory Baker embezzled more than $1,000 from the fire department “for his own personal enrichment” over a two-year period.

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The grand jurors met for three days this month in Oklahoma City. Baker, 48, of Hartshorne, denied the felony charge. “No, I didn’t,” he said when reached by phone Thursday evening.

Baker disbanded the fire department in southeast Oklahoma early in 2013.

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