Mount Kisco parking officer gets jail time for $90K quarter theft

A former Mount Kisco parking enforcement officer could spend up to six months in jail for stealing more than $90,000 in quarters from street meters.

Jeffrey Daday, 36, of 15 Sun Valley Drive, North Salem, was sentenced Monday to five years probation including time in the county jail for the theft. Lucian Chalfen, a spokesman for Westchester District Attorney Janet DiFiore, said Wednesday the judge told Daday he would serve 30 days unless he violated other terms of the agreement.

He has paid back $90,893.72, according to the DA's office.

Daday pleaded guilty in Westchester County Court in White Plains to felony counts of second-degree grand larceny and first-degree offering a false instrument for filing.

Between 2009 and 2014, Daday pocketed between $190 and $600 — in quarters — from Mount Kisco parking meters every week.

He deposited the coins into his bank account in the village, eventually arousing the suspicions of bank staff. The bank alerted authorities that Daday, still wearing his parking enforcement uniform, was regularly depositing large amounts of coins into his personal account.

Police and investigators from the District Attorney's office began watching Daday. They saw him removing the coin chambers from several parking meters and emptying the contents into his pants cargo pocket.

Daday has resigned from his job, according to Mount Kisco officials. He had no prior criminal record.

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