LANCASTER, Ohio - A second Fairfield County deputy is no longer with the office after he was shown on a security-camera videotape shoplifting from a Wal-Mart in Reynoldsburg where he was working special duty, Sheriff Dave Phalen said. Phalen said he fired Ed Curry, a deputy since 1999, today after he reviewed a videotape showing Curry shoplifting from the store on Dec. 12. Curry was in uniform when he shoplifted merchandise after he finished working a special-duty shift, Phalen said.

LANCASTER, Ohio � A second Fairfield County deputy is no longer with the office after he was shown on a security-camera videotape shoplifting from a Wal-Mart in Reynoldsburg where he was working special duty, Sheriff Dave Phalen said.



Phalen said he fired Ed Curry, a deputy since 1999, today after he reviewed a videotape showing Curry shoplifting from the store on Dec. 12. Curry was in uniform when he shoplifted merchandise after he finished working a special-duty shift, Phalen said.



Curry�s wife, Angela Fleming-Curry, who had been a Fairfield County deputy since 2004, handed in her resignation last month at Phalen�s request after she was shown on videotape shoplifting on Oct. 18 and again on Dec. 13 from the same Wal-Mart where she worked special-duty shifts. She, too, was in uniform, Phalen said.



No charges have been filed. The Reynoldsburg Police Department is investigating the incidents that occurred at the Wal-Mart at the Taylor Square Shopping Center at 2793 Taylor Rd., Phalen said.



�I was certainly shocked and disappointed,� Phalen said. �Law-enforcement officers should be held to a higher standard. My hope is that he is prosecuted to the fullest extent of the law.�



It was bad enough that Fleming-Curry shoplifted, and worse still that her husband did the same, Phalen said.



�It really is embarrassing, it really is,� he said.

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