District Attorney Don Quick
announced today that former Director of the Public Works Department for Adams County,
Leland Asay (DOB: 04/13/1951)
entered a guilty plea to Theft (F4) for unlawful and unauthorized use of Adams County
trucks and employee services in March 2006.
As the Director of Public Works, Asay
oversaw both the contracting for road paving and resurfacing, as well as the
use of County trucks and equipment. Asay was the last person charged in the
Adams County Public Works/Quality Paving thefts and corruption.
DA Quick states “The investigation
and prosecution of these cases has been an extensive process. People don’t realize the amount of time and
resources utilized to insure justice was realized. The efforts of Sheriff Darr and his
detectives Jeremy Whytock and Terry Miles, and prosecutors Dave Young and Jess
Redman, are to be commended.”
The former President and
Owner of Quality Paving and Quality Resurfacing, Jerry Rhea, and the former Vice-President of Quality Paving, Dennis Coen, were found guilty by Adams County
jurors in separate trials for numerous theft related felonies. Rhea was
sentenced to nine years and Coen
received a 13 year sentence to the Department of Corrections. Three others pled guilty for their
involvement in the public corruption: Heath Russo, former Quality Resurfacing
employee pled guilty to Theft of $20,000 or more (F3) and Theft (M1); Stacey
Parkin, former Adams County Public Works employee, pled guilty to Theft of
$20,000 or more (F3) and Official Misconduct (M2); Sam Gomez, former Adams County Public Works employee, entered a
guilty plea to two counts of theft (F3) and was sentenced to four years in DOC.
Chief Trial Deputy Dave
Young states “It is our hope that the successful prosecution of these cases
will instill faith and trust in local government from the citizens of Adams County.”
Asay is
scheduled for sentencing on January 29, 2013, 9:30 AM in Adams County District
Court.
I do not know why Dennis Coen took the fall for all of this! I worked there and Jerry, Sam and Lee were always trying to find ways to screw the Adams County people. Like the crackseal crews who always threw the rubber away after they cut the tags off. And poor ole Alice! she is right in the middle of it all. I remember going around putting up election signs for her with Jimmy Russo Vice President of Quality Resurfacing. The whole county is on the take.
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