Nantucket Transportation Authority manager indicted

A former manager of the Nantucket Regional Transportation Authority was arraigned Tuesday in Barnstable Superior Court for allegedly stealing more than $8,000 from the fare boxes.

Quoizel Wilson, age 30, of Nantucket, is charged with larceny over $250, and breaking into a depository.

He was arraigned in Barnstable before Superior Court Judge Richard Conan and entered a plea of not guilty. Wilson was released on $2,000 bail with the condition that he stay away from the NRTA, according to a press release from the state Attorney General's office.

He is scheduled to next appear in court on November 19, 2008, for a pre-trial conference. The Attorney General's office began an investigation, after the NRTA contacted the office concerning funds missing from bus fare boxes.

Investigators discovered that on various dates between July and September 2008, Wilson allegedly gained unauthorized access to the NRTA's fare boxes and stole over $8,000 from those boxes. Authorities allege that Wilson used these funds for his own personal use.

A Nantucket County Grand Jury on Monday returned indictments against Wilson. He was arrested Monday night on Nantucket without incident.

The case is being prosecuted by Assistant Attorney General Ina Howard-Hogan, of Attorney General Martha Coakley's Corruption and Fraud Division, and was investigated by Massachusetts State Troopers assigned to the Attorney General's Office. I