Senior center worker guilty of stealing from clients

1/26/2012

A former supervisor employed by the Anne Grady Center, 2121 S. Byrne Road, to help those with disabilities manage their finances, was found guilty in Lucas County Common Pleas Court Thursday of stealing from those he was charged to help.

Gregory Henry, 50, of Maumee pleaded no contest to four counts of theft from an elderly person or disabled adult. As part of the plea, he agreed to pay $38,159.73 in restitution to four victims.

He faces up to nine years in prison when sentenced March 13 by Judge Frederick McDonald.

Authorities said that while working as a supervisor in the agency's supported living section, Henry was supposed to be helping those he worked with pay their expenses. Instead, he took money from four separate individuals to pay his own bills, said Jeff Lingo, chief of the criminal division for the prosecutor's office.

Over a two-year period - from January, 2009, to February, 2011, Henry took thousands of dollars from the four victims, including $21,580.51 from one individual.