Starr then duped a local gun shop into laundering the money, telling the owner he would be acting as a broker due to regulations. In Starr’s alleged scheme, he falsified documents to have the city pay $7,654 for a Beamhit 390 system even though it actually only sells for $1,290, what state police point out is a 493 percent markup. Starr is accused of funneling city Community Development Block Grant money into his own pocket in 2015 by inflating the price of a firearms training system and then using a local gun shop to unwittingly launder the money. Starr lost a total of $53,467 between 20, state police noted. Over that time he spent $1,199.75 at the slot machines and came away ahead with $328.Īdding to Starr’s gambling totals is the amount he played and lost at The Rivers Casino in Pittsburgh. Investigators allege that between July 2014 and March 2017, Starr bet a total of $156,788.50 at the tables at the casino, cashed out only $105,388 of that for a total loss of $51,400.50. Other times, he was shown to be playing table games within minutes of clocking out of work, even though the casino is 70 miles away. State police said casino records often put Starr at the tables when city records had him as working. Police said Starr also padded his police overtime to the tune of $8,920.02, at $45.49 per hour.

Instead, police said Starr intended to use the money for himself while racking up huge losses at Rocky Gap Casino in Flintstone, Md.

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