ESSEX — Police have charged one of their former officers with taking equipment from the Essex department during his time on the force — and never returning it.
Edwin Fournier, 45, of 44 Lexington Drive, Hampstead, N.H., was charged late Wednesday with municipal embezzlement — a felony — for taking what police called "a significant" amount of goods and supplies after resigning from his post as a part-time reserve officer in July 2007.
Fournier is a reserve officer in Groveland and Marblehead, according to department rosters and a Groveland department worker.
Essex police Chief Peter Silva yesterday declined to list exactly what Fournier had taken from the department, but said it did not include any guns. He said a dollar value for the equipment was still being calculated, and he could not provide an estimate.
Silva said a conviction for municipal embezzlement could carry a sentence of up to 10 years in prison. He said a hearing for Fournier would happen in Gloucester District Court but had not yet been scheduled.
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