Longtime UA prof faces 10 felony charges -- April 27, 2015
One of the University of Arizona’s longest-serving professors has been indicted by a grand jury on suspicion of defrauding the school. John A. Marchello, 78, faces prosecution on 10 felony counts after money was misappropriated from a student-run meat store he oversaw on Tucson's north side, court records show.
Marchello, a tenured professor of animal sciences who has worked at UA for nearly 50 years, was indicted on one count of theft of property or services over $25,000; one count of fraudulent schemes; one count of computer tampering and seven counts of forgery. The April 7 indictment does not include a total for how much money has gone missing. A search warrant obtained by campus police detectives last fall put the suspected total at more than $130,000. ..................
Marchello’s indictment comes about five months after campus police searched his offices at the UA “meat lab,” where students sell butchered livestock to the public at the school's agriculture center on North Campbell Avenue. The livestock is raised by UA students as part of their education in animal husbandry. ・・・
