Updated at 4:37 p.m.
The former executive director of the Vermont Council of Special Education Administrators was charged with felony embezzlement, the Montpelier Police Department said in a press release Friday.
Darren McIntrye, who served as the head of the organization from 2021 to 2023, embezzled more than $76,000 from the organization and used the funds “for personal gain,” police alleged in the release.
The investigation began in October 2024, when the organization reported the “misappropriation of company funds” to the Montpelier Police Department, Alesha Donovan, a police detective with the department, said in the release.
The Vermont Council of Special Education Administrators has been active in Vermont for decades, supporting special education administrators and employees in school districts across the state.
Mary Lundeen, the organization’s executive director, said in an email that the organization was “bound to promptly report” any irregularities “and to conduct an audit to determine the facts.”
“That is what it has done here,” she said. “We leave it to law enforcement and the courts to decide whether there are criminal acts.”
