{"id":17255,"date":"2025-10-26T13:30:33","date_gmt":"2025-10-26T13:30:33","guid":{"rendered":"https:\/\/www.newsbeep.com\/us-ny\/17255\/"},"modified":"2025-10-26T13:30:33","modified_gmt":"2025-10-26T13:30:33","slug":"retired-new-york-state-trooper-accused-of-stealing-funds-from-union","status":"publish","type":"post","link":"https:\/\/www.newsbeep.com\/us-ny\/17255\/","title":{"rendered":"Retired New York State Trooper accused of stealing funds from union"},"content":{"rendered":"<p>ALBANY, N.Y. (<a href=\"https:\/\/www.news10.com\/news\/crime\/retired-new-york-state-trooper-accused-of-stealing-funds-from-union\/\" rel=\"nofollow noopener\" target=\"_blank\">NEWS10<\/a>) \u2014 A retired New York State Trooper was arrested on Friday morning. Thomas Mungeer, 56, was charged with third-degree grand larceny.<\/p>\n<p>\t<a href=\"https:\/\/www.news10.com\/watch-news10-on-roku-fire-tv-and-apple-tv\/\" class=\"promo-link__link\" target=\"&quot;_blank&quot;\" rel=\"nofollow noopener\"><br \/>\n\t\tDownload our WTEN+ streaming app on Roku, Fire TV and Apple TV!\t<\/a><\/p>\n<p>The state police said Mungeer is accused of stealing union funds between March 5, 2018, and October 4, 2022, while serving as President of the New York State Troopers Police Benevolent Association. Troopers would not specify the amount of money he is alleged to have misappropriated, but they said he used these funds for personal uses and expenses and it totaled to a value of more than $3,000.<\/p>\n<p>Mungeer was arrested at the State Police Troop G Headquarters in Latham before being arraigned in Albany City Court. He was released and will return to Albany County Superior Court on December 1.<\/p>\n<p>Read the latest from NEWS10:<\/p>\n<p><a href=\"https:\/\/www.news10.com\/\" rel=\"nofollow noopener\" target=\"_blank\">NEWS10<\/a> is the Capital Region\u2019s local news leader!<\/p>\n","protected":false},"excerpt":{"rendered":"ALBANY, N.Y. (NEWS10) \u2014 A retired New York State Trooper was arrested on Friday morning. Thomas Mungeer, 56,&hellip;\n","protected":false},"author":2,"featured_media":17256,"comment_status":"","ping_status":"","sticky":false,"template":"","format":"standard","meta":{"footnotes":""},"categories":[6],"tags":[4241,12056,9,11,10,49,51,50,747,12057,8938,797,12055],"class_list":["post-17255","post","type-post","status-publish","format-standard","has-post-thumbnail","category-new-york","tag-albany","tag-albany-county","tag-new-york","tag-new-york-headlines","tag-new-york-news","tag-new-york-state","tag-new-york-state-headlines","tag-new-york-state-news","tag-new-york-state-police","tag-new-york-state-troopers-police-benevolent-association","tag-state-police","tag-theft","tag-troopers"],"_links":{"self":[{"href":"https:\/\/www.newsbeep.com\/us-ny\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/posts\/17255","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=17255"}],"version-history":[{"count":0,"href":"https:\/\/www.newsbeep.com\/us-ny\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/posts\/17255\/revisions"}],"wp:featuredmedia":[{"embeddable":true,"href":"https:\/\/www.newsbeep.com\/us-ny\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/media\/17256"}],"wp:attachment":[{"href":"https:\/\/www.newsbeep.com\/us-ny\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/media?parent=17255"}],"wp:term":[{"taxonomy":"category","embeddable":true,"href":"https:\/\/www.newsbeep.com\/us-ny\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/categories?post=17255"},{"taxonomy":"post_tag","embeddable":true,"href":"https:\/\/www.newsbeep.com\/us-ny\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/tags?post=17255"}],"curies":[{"name":"wp","href":"https:\/\/api.w.org\/{rel}","templated":true}]}}