LOG LANE VILLAGE, Colo.—The former mayor of Log Lane Village has written the town a check for 85 cents, the amount he says he got when he melted down a town-owned hard drive and sold the aluminum for scrap.
Chuck Lakatos told the town Board of Trustees in a letter last week that he got the hard drive mixed up with his own computer parts. He apologized and gave the town a used hard drive.
Lakatos says the hard drive had been removed from a police computer for a possible upgrade. Mayor Robin Hotchkiss says a computer expert told town officials all the information on the hard drive had been erased before it was removed.
Hotchkiss says the trustees consider the matter closed.
Log Lane Village, a town 1,000, is 60 miles east of Denver.
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Information from: The Fort Morgan Times,
