A former state Department of Children and Families employee, Krystle Blake, has been arrested and charged with fraudulent claim or receipt of benefits, a felony punishable by up to 20 years in prison.
According to the arrest warrant affidavit, Blake, 24, received more than $18,000 in workers compensation benefits as a result of an injury she claimed to have suffered on November 18, 2006, while working part-time as a rehabilitation therapy assistant for the DCF.
The warrant alleges Blake failed to disclose that she continued to work part-time at another job and was operating a tanning business in Meriden while receiving disability benefits.
Blake was released on a written promise to appear in Middletown Superior Court on March 18.
