Hide Article Text (OCR)
Ex-Kirkwood official guilty of felony theft in KansasBy Kurt RogahnGazette staff writerGaylon Dahn, who left Kirkwood Community College six years ago for the presidency of Dodge City Community College in Kansas, has been found guilty of four felony counts and two misdemeanors in connection with financial irregularities discovered at the Kansas school last year.Dahn, 57, had headed community education at Kirkwood. He also had been a successful high school basketball coach at Keota, Mount Pleasant and at Cedar Rapids Jefferson high schools. He resigned as president at Dodge City last April after an audit discovered irregularities in college funds.Dahn was charged last fall in Ford County, Kan., with 39 felony counts of theft and submitting false purchase orders to Ttf? college. He pleaded “no contest to six counts earlier this month in a plea bargain.Ford County Attorney Leigh Hood, who prosecuted Dahn, said Monday that Dahn “was the originator on two purchase orders on friends of his, one of them a buddy of his in South Carolina,” the other to someone in Illinois.FOR EVERY six $1,000 checks that went from the junior college to the man in South Carolina.Hood said, three checks were going to Dahn, Hood said. He said Dahn pleaded no contest “to one felony theft count on each guy, which gave our judge the full spectrum of what he was involved in. But we probably could have filed 139 counts. There was a lot more we could have done.”Hood said the scheme was discovered when someone at the junior college noticed Dahn’s name on the back of a check as an endorsee. “The company name turned out to be one of his sons, Hood said.A TRIAL* on charges filed against Dahn’s two sons, David Dahn. 27, of Elgin, 111., and Jeffrey Dahn, 32. of Lisbon, a sports-writer for The Cedar Rapids Gazette, is still pending, Hood saidMonday. Both sons were accused last October of accepting about $3,000 each for educational consulting work they allegedly never performed. The two are to go on trial in the middle of next month, Hood said Monday, but their case could be diverted in the pretrial process.Hood said, “At the pretrial, if they agree to do certain things over the next year or two or three (including reimbursing the community college) then the charges can be dismissed at the end of the time period.”Meanwhile, Judge Jay Don Reynolds did not set a sentencing date for the eldest Dahn, who remains free on $50,000 bond. Hood said Dahn told the court services staff he is dividing his residence between Phoenix. Ariz., and Denver, Colo.
Newspaper Details
Cedar Rapids Gazette
Cedar Rapids, Iowa, US
Tue, Apr 24, 1990
Page 2
Full Page
Clipped by
Dave D.
NA, 18 Jan 2025
Other Publications Near Cedar Rapids, Iowa
Cedar Rapids Gazette
Cedar Rapids Republican and Times
Cedar Rapids Republican
Cedar Rapids New Cosmos
Cedar Rapids Cosmos
