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Man Accused of Stealing to Avoid Foreclosure, Pay for Strippers, Heads to Trial

Robert Butts, the former finance director for Lower Southampton who is accused of stealing $24,000 from the Middletown Athletic Association, will head to trial after waiving his preliminary hearing.

Lower Southampton's former finance director will head to trial after waiving his preliminary hearing on charges of stealing $24,000 from the Middletown Athletic Association.

Robert S. Butts, 53, of Levittown surrendered to police Friday, April 5 to face charges that he stole $24,000 from the Middletown Athletic Association. He waivied his preliminary hearing last week, according to an article on PhillyBurbs.

According to a previous article, Butts was the treasurer of the athletic association when he withdrew $20,000 from the association’s account in Feb. 2012 to try and save his Homestead Road Levittown home from foreclosure.

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Detectives also found that Butts, between 2011 and 2012, used the association’s debit card to charge $4,490 at the Oakford Inn, a strip club at the border of Bensalem, Lower Southampton and Middletown near the Neshaminy Mall, the article states.

Butts was fired from his township position on Friday, April 5 after the arrest, according to Lower Southampton Township Manager John McMenamin. He had been suspended pending dismissal when the township learned of Butts’ imminent arrest.

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