A former officer for the Country Club Village Police Department pleaded guilty Tuesday to charges stemming from the theft of cash from the department’s evidence room

Dustin Kirschner admitted the theft in an interview with investigators from the Missouri State Highway Patrol late last year. Mr Kirschner was charged with stealing, a Class-C felony. In a plea bargain, Andrew County authorities reduced that charge to attempted stealing. The defendant pleaded guilty on Tuesday.

Andrew County Associate Circuit Judge Michael Ordnung accepted the plea and placed Mr Kirshner on three years of supervised probation.

Defense lawyer Jim Nadolski says his client’s law-enforcement career is over. Mr Nadolski says Kirschner is now working for a lawn service.

Officials say there were actually about two dozen incidents in which cash was taken from the evidence room, totalling about $4,100.