According to district and Jacksonville police records, Ken Camanga, 47, had been working for the district about 10 months when a solid waste manager for the Florida National Guard contacted him in November to inquire about donating used computer equipment, including a total of 57 computer towers and monitors, to schools.

It is against district policy to receive donated used computer equipment for student use. Yet Camanga agreed to accept the equipment and, using his own money, rented a Home Depot flatbed pickup truck, which he drove to Camp Blanding in Starke.

The donated items have a retail value of $13,000, Duval records show.

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“According to the FNG representative, you spoke about how much the computer items were going to help the DCPS and made comments to the effect, ‘the children were going to be very excited,’ ” Sonita Young, an assistant superintendent, wrote in a memo to Camanga.

Police said Camanga drove the equipment the same day to a metals recycler, Main Metal Recycling on Beaver Street in Jacksonville, and sold it all for scrap, collecting $318.90, which he kept.

Duval technology officials found out about it in January, when the Florida National Guard asked for written documentation of the donation.

After an investigation by Clay County police and Duval school police, Camanga was arrested Feb. 10 at work in the district’s Bulls Bay Highway offices. Clay County charged him with grand theft.

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Later the Jacksonville Sheriff’s Office filed charges of dealing in stolen property and false verification of ownership, both second-degree felonies.

Camanga pleaded guilty in Clay County Circuit Court in June to a third-degree felony charge of obtaining personal property with intent to defraud.

A judge withheld adjudication and sentenced him to a day in jail, more than $600 in court, prosecution and investigation costs, and he was ordered to surrender his cash bond of $5,000, which was disbursed half to Clay County Schools and half to Duval County Schools. Charges in Duval County were dropped.

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