Oneida, N.Y. – A Central New York woman employed by the state Department of Transportation stole several thousand pounds of asphalt from the DOT, troopers said.<\/p>\n
On Feb. 4, troopers received a complaint from the DOT Investigations Bureau regarding an incident that happened at their facility at 635 Lenox Avenue in the city of Oneida on Oct. 27 at around 1:30 p.m., said Sgt. Jack Keller, a spokesperson for State Police.<\/p>\n
Troopers found that Tina L. Barretta, 59, of Rome, while employed as a DOT maintenance worker, directed that 20,000 lbs. of asphalt millings be loaded into a DOT truck during work hours.<\/p>\n
The millings were then brought to a private residence on Wood Creek Road in Rome, where it was dumped without authorization, according to Keller.<\/p>\n
The millings cost around $250.<\/p>\n
On Feb. 5, Barretta turned herself in to troopers in Oneida. She was arrested and charged with petit larceny and official misconduct, according to Keller.<\/p>\n
Barretta was processed and released on appearance tickets returnable to Oneida City Court on Feb. 26 at 9 a.m.<\/p>\n
Barretta made $96,321 in 2024 on a base salary of $53,708, according to See Through NY, a database of public sector payrolls.<\/p>\n","protected":false},"excerpt":{"rendered":"Oneida, N.Y. – A Central New York woman employed by the state Department of Transportation stole several thousand…\n","protected":false},"author":2,"featured_media":133763,"comment_status":"","ping_status":"","sticky":false,"template":"","format":"standard","meta":{"footnotes":""},"categories":[6],"tags":[9,11,10,49,51,50],"class_list":{"0":"post-133762","1":"post","2":"type-post","3":"status-publish","4":"format-standard","5":"has-post-thumbnail","7":"category-new-york","8":"tag-new-york","9":"tag-new-york-headlines","10":"tag-new-york-news","11":"tag-new-york-state","12":"tag-new-york-state-headlines","13":"tag-new-york-state-news"},"_links":{"self":[{"href":"https:\/\/www.newsbeep.com\/us-ny\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/posts\/133762","targetHints":{"allow":["GET"]}}],"collection":[{"href":"https:\/\/www.newsbeep.com\/us-ny\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/posts"}],"about":[{"href":"https:\/\/www.newsbeep.com\/us-ny\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/types\/post"}],"author":[{"embeddable":true,"href":"https:\/\/www.newsbeep.com\/us-ny\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/users\/2"}],"replies":[{"embeddable":true,"href":"https:\/\/www.newsbeep.com\/us-ny\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/comments?post=133762"}],"version-history":[{"count":0,"href":"https:\/\/www.newsbeep.com\/us-ny\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/posts\/133762\/revisions"}],"wp:featuredmedia":[{"embeddable":true,"href":"https:\/\/www.newsbeep.com\/us-ny\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/media\/133763"}],"wp:attachment":[{"href":"https:\/\/www.newsbeep.com\/us-ny\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/media?parent=133762"}],"wp:term":[{"taxonomy":"category","embeddable":true,"href":"https:\/\/www.newsbeep.com\/us-ny\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/categories?post=133762"},{"taxonomy":"post_tag","embeddable":true,"href":"https:\/\/www.newsbeep.com\/us-ny\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/tags?post=133762"}],"curies":[{"name":"wp","href":"https:\/\/api.w.org\/{rel}","templated":true}]}}