The municipal tax collector for three townships in Warren County is accused of stealing more than $75,000 in residents' property tax payments, New Jersey State Police announced Saturday.

Rachellyn Mosher (Courtesy photo | For lehighvalleylive.com)

Rachellyn Mosher, 48, of Lopatcong Township, was arrested Friday and sent to Warren County jail, pending a bail detention hearing, State Police said in a news release.

Mosher is accused of using her position to steal the cash payments from 2013 through this year from residents in White, Harmony and Lopatcong townships.

Authorities took Mosher into custody in Lopatcong following an 11-month investigation by the New Jersey State Police Official Corruption North Unit and the Warren County Prosecutor's Office, state police said. Township police assisted on the arrest.

"In order to conceal her thefts, Mosher allegedly falsified each township's computerized tax records," state police wrote in the release.

Mosher was charged with three counts each of official misconduct, pattern of official misconduct and tampering with public records, in addition to two counts of theft.

Numbers listed for Mosher were no longer in service, and it was unclear if she immediately had an attorney to represent her.

The office of Prosecutor Richard Burke will prosecute the case.

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