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 AgaƱa, 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.