Monday, August 08, 2011

State Police official sold Garmin 496 for cash to fellow trooper. Trooper Brian Rumrill told investigators he did not know GPS was stolen.

COLONIE -- Criminal charges filed last week against the former head of the State Police Aviation Unit stem from his alleged cash sale of a government-owned global-positioning satellite device to a fellow state trooper.

Court records show that Trooper Brian D. Rumrill, 37, of Lake George provided a written statement to State Police investigators on July 14 recounting his purchase of an aviation GPS device from former State Police Maj. Robert U. Kreppein, 47.

Rumrill could not be reached for comment.

According to the statement attributed to him Rumrill told internal affairs investigators that in April 2009 he was in Kreppein's office at the aviation unit's Albany headquarters when he and Kreppein talked about Rumrill's interest in buying an airplane with a GPS device. Rumrill had recently obtained a pilot's license.

"He told me he had a Garmin 496 that was a couple of years old," Rumrill said. "Major Kreppein told me that it was his personal GPS and that he wanted to upgrade to a touch screen GPS. He stated that he would sell me the Garmin 496 for $1,600."

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