Stager will face charges for allegedly taking $3,000 in golf clubs and other merchandise and pocketing $1,030 in league fees.
Charges have been filed against the former head golf professional at Riverview Country Club, Easton, Pa., accusing him of taking merchandise and pocketing league fees, police records say.
According to Lehigh Valley’s The Express Times, charges against Christopher Stager, 32, were filed in February with District Judge Jacqueline Taschner following an extensive seven-month investigation, township police Chief Greg Dorney said.
Stager, who was fired from his job in June, has not been arraigned on the charges and police have been attempting to contact him to give him an opportunity to surrender, Dorney said.
Stager will face charges of receiving stolen property and two counts of theft for allegedly taking $3,000 in golf clubs and other merchandise, pocketing $1,030 in league fees and printing postcards for his girlfriend’s photography business on the golf course’s dime, records say.
According to police records William Hissam of Strausser Enterprises, the company that owns the golf course, on July 13 contacted township police to report “a substantial amount of merchandise” missing from the pro shop.
Hissam said golf course management suspected for several months that Stager was stealing because employees had seen Stager take clothing and wear it out of the shop without paying for it.
On July 2, three days after Stager was fired, a physical inventory found that three sets of golf irons and a driver were missing. The clubs were valued at $3,000.
Hissam later discovered an invoice for postcards that was billed to the golf course that Stager allegedly had printed for his girlfriend’s photography business. The cards cost $100. An e-mail exchange between Stager and the printing company showed that Stager asked for the invoice to be fudged so it would not reflect the name of the photography business and instead say “Riverview promo cards.”
Hissam’s further review of Stager’s work showed Stager pocketed $1,030 in league registration fees that were supposed to be used for a luncheon and prizes.
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