Former city employee pleads guilty to theft

A former City of Warren sanitation department employee pled guilty to a felony theft of property charge and was sentenced to five years in the Arkansas Department of Correction and ordered to pay the city restitution in the amount of $4,679.18.

Mack Henry Collins, 55, of Warren, was fired from his job July 10, 2008, in the midst of an investigation in which he was suspected of charging several hundred dollars worth of fuel to the City of Warren for his personal use.

A week after his termination, he was arrested following a police investigation into the matter, in which additional unauthorized fuel receipts from a local station were discovered.