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GOSHEN - Prosecutors say a committee chairwoman for a church-sponsored Boy Scout troop and Cub Scout pack embezzled more than $13,000 from the groups.

On Monday, an investigator from the Orange County District Attorney's Office arrested Kelley Zamenick, 43, of New Windsor, charging her with two counts of third-degree grand larceny and eight counts of first-degree falsifying business records, felonies.

Prosecutors said Zamenick was the committee chairperson for the Boy Scout and Cub Scout groups sponsored by Gardnertown United Methodist Church. Between 2016-2018, prosecutors said, Zamenick took more than $10,465 from the Boy Scout troop and more than $3,040 from the Cub Scout troop, and created and submitted false documents including eight forged bank statements to cover the thefts.

Prosecutors said the charter representative of the Cub Scout pack contacted the Orange County District Attorney's Office to report possible embezzlement. Zamenick surrendered to investigators Monday at the Newburgh town police department, and town police assisted with the arrest.

District Attorney David Hoovler praised the church for being good stewards of the Boy Scout and Cub Scout finances, in discovering the bookkeeping irregularities and bringing them to the attention of his office.