A 32-year-old man who was the treasurer of the Pilot Butte volunteer fire department has been sentenced to four months in jail for defrauding the town’s fire hall, after he forged cheques totaling more than $10,000 in 2013.
Danny Joseph Klyne was given sentence on Tuesday in provincial court, during which he was also ordered by the judge to pay back the money — a total of $10,630.
Klyne wrote the 36 forged cheques between March and October in 2013. He ultimately turned himself in to the RCMP.
“He attended to the police department, prior to them having an open investigation. I think it’s fair to say that it was inevitable that there was going to be a criminal investigation, and he perhaps knew that. However, he actually attended the police department on his own initiative, before they even opened a file,” said Klyne’s lawyer, Jeff Deagle.
Klyne was also convicted of arson for starting a bin fire in Regina.
