No charges will be filed against a former Penn Forest Township employee who is suspected of stealing nearly $2,000 from a number of township garbage accounts.

Penn Forest Township supervisors spoke about the theft and investigation on Monday.Township solicitor Thomas Nanovic read a prepared statement at the supervisors meeting that said last spring, office employees uncovered a number of garbage accounts that had been marked inactive even though the homeowners had active garbage passes.Further investigation uncovered 38 accounts that had either been marked inactive or had voided invoices.The total amount of missing funds came to $1,625.Nanovic said the staff notified supervisors who, in turn, instructed Nanovic to contact the Pennsylvania State Police.Troopers conducted a thorough investigation and consulted the Carbon County District Attorney’s office.But the district attorney determined that there was not sufficient evidence at this time to bring criminal charges.The supervisors said the person of interest is no longer employed by the township and had resigned on their own.“Although we were disappointed with the outcome, we are very satisfied that both the Pennsylvania State Police and the Carbon County District Attorney’s Office did everything they could reasonably and legally do to help us recover this money and hold the responsible person or persons accountable,” Nanovic said.The township has put safeguards in place to make sure that this type of theft will not occur in the future.Each employee accessing accounts on the computer must now sign in with a unique pass code, and account statuses cannot be changed without the secretary’s approval.Nanovic thanked the office staff for working diligently once the problem was discovered to verify that all of the garbage accounts were correct and that all funds were accounted for.