A Montgomery County Housing Opportunities Commission employee has been accused of stealing money that had been paid to a commission-run program.
Montgomery County police said the commission had a contract with the county’s Department of Health and Human Services to manage a senior nutrition program that provided meals to elderly citizens.
To offset costs, the program accepted funds from residents at facilities it served. Authorities said 29-year-old Kunthea Lun was responsible for collecting the cash from one of those facilities, the Forest Oak Towers apartments in Gaithersburg, and depositing it into a government account, but instead stole $388 this spring.
Police said Lun’s supervisors noticed that no deposits were made between April 1 and May 21.
Lun, of Silver Spring, was taken into custody Monday and charged with theft and fraudulent misappropriation.
— Emily Babay
