Colorado City manager gets probation for misuses of public funds

Colorado_City,_AZBy Jim Steckler | Mohave Valley Daily News

The second of two former Colorado City fire district officials who were charged with the misuse of public money was sentenced to probation Friday in Superior Court.

Colorado City Manager David William Darger, a former secretary-treasurer for the city’s fire district, pleaded guilty in March to two counts of solicitation of misuse of public money, which occurred Dec. 29, 2005, and April 3, 2009. He had been charged with 36 felony counts including violating the duties as custodian of public funds and participating in a criminal syndicate.

Darger’s co-defendant, former Colorado City Fire Chief Jacob Leonard Barlow, pleaded guilty in February to two counts of solicitation of misuse of public money and was sentenced a month later to supervised probation for three years and no additional jail time. He had been charged with 49 counts in two cases including violating the duties as custodian of public funds and participating in a criminal syndicate.

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