CHIEF DEPUTY U.S. MARSHAL PLEADS GUILTY
                    TO THEFT OF AIRLINE CREDIT VOUCHERS

     WASHINGTON, D.C.-- The former Chief Deputy U.S. Marshal for
Guam and the Northern Mariana Islands today pleaded guilty in U.S.
District Court in Agaña, Guam, to converting to personal use more
than $7,500 in government-owned airline credit vouchers and to
making a false statement to conceal the conversion.  
     Immediately after the plea, he was sentenced to serve three
years probation withsix months' electronically monitored home
confinement, and to pay a $5,000 fine.
     The plea was entered by Philip T. Krell, 49, a 28-year veteran
of the U.S. Marshals Service.  Krell admitted that he had retained
ticket vouchers issued to the Marshals Service by an airlines and
by a travel agency in exchange for unused tickets originally
purchased for official travel by Marshals Service personnel and
prisoners.  He used four of the vouchers to obtain tickets for
personal travel by himself, his family, and a friend.  In order to
conceal one of the conversions, he filed a travel voucher falsely
stating that he had flown to Guam from California on official
business.  
     Krell was ordered to pay $2,695 restitution.  He also agreed
to pay the U.S. Marshals Service $10,420 in compensation for
airline frequent flyer miles which he earned on official government
travel but used for personal travel. 
     The case was prosecuted by the Public Integrity Section of the
Criminal Division, and investigated by the Department of Justice
Office of the Inspector General, San Diego Field Office.