Former Dutro Employee Guilty of Embezzlement

The Muskingum County Prosecutor’s Office said a former manager at Dutro’s dealership body shop will spend 30 months in prison.

William Arter appeared before Judge Mark Fleegle in Common Pleas Court to plead guilty to a prosecutor’s bill of information for telecommunications fraud.

Authorities said Arter was caught after a Zanesville Police investigation by Detective Bryan Ruff. They said Arter, was granted additional supervisory authority following a large influx of customers after a 2022 hail storm.

They said an investigation showed that Arter used that access to offer customers cash discounts, then altered computer accounting data to account for inaccuracies. He also altered employee working hours to pay other employees and his family for hours they didn’t work. Officials said he stole shop equipment, money owed to his employer from scrapping broken parts and misused a company gas card.