PLYMOUTH – Plymouth resident and former Plymouth Volunteer Fire Department Treasurer Andrew Cushman was arrested on November 12, 2013 following an investigation by the New York State Police Troop C into the disappearance of funds from accounts he was responsible for.

It is alleged that Cushman, age 25, stole more than $10,000 from the Town of Plymouth Volunteer Fire Department (VFD) while acting as the department treasurer, a position he has held for more than two years. Cushman, who has been with the department since age 16, is being charged with third degree grand larceny, a class D felony.

The Town of Plymouth VFD has now had two such cases of internal fraud in recent years. In 2010, Leroy C. Burlingame III admitted to former Chenango County Judge W. Howard Sullivan that he stole nearly $4,200. Burlingame, who was 26 at the time, would eventually accept a felony plea bargain which was later reduced to a misdemeanor charge with the completion of three years probation.