“Between July 2007 and February 2010, Covert and Jarvis used their positions in charge of handling cash, making bank deposits for the village and maintaining traffic court records, to skim $260,000 in revenue collected from drivers into their own pockets.
The village, population 742, is a notorious speed trap, as documented by the National Speed Trap Exchange. Hamilton County Prosecutor Joseph T. Deters concluded Arlington Heights should not even exist. ‘The village council needs to seriously consider dissolving the village of Arlington Heights,’ Deters said in a statement. ‘The village seems to be nothing more than a speed trap with no checks and balances.'”
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