Youngstown fire Lt. Patrick Bundy faces two felony charges in Franklin County Common Pleas Court, accused of working while receiving disability benefits from the Ohio Bureau of Workers’ Compensation.

A Franklin County grand jury indicted Bundy, 46, of Poland, on charges of workers’ compensation fraud and theft, both fifth-degree felonies. The amount of the alleged theft is $5,880.

Authorities allege Bundy was working for a company while also receiving workers’ compensation benefits, said Steve Irwin, a spokesman for the Ohio Attorney General’s Office, which is prosecuting the case.

As of Friday, Bundy was still employed with the city.

Adam Buente, a city deputy law director, said, “We are aware of the charges filed by the attorney general’s office. We are in the process of evaluating our options.”

The charges were investigated by the BWC, Irwin said. Cases of alleged workers’ compensation fraud are typically prosecuted in Franklin County because that is where the bureau is headquartered, Irwin said.

A judge hadn’t been assigned to Bundy’s case as of Friday, and no initial court appearance had been scheduled.

The indictment, unsealed Feb. 20, accuses Bundy of improperly receiving workers’ compensation benefits from Jan. 16, 2022, to Feb. 26, 2022, he “was not entitled” to obtain or “presented a false or misleading statement with the purpose to secure” those benefits.

Youngstown hired Bundy as a firefighter on Feb. 14, 2010. He was promoted in March 2022 to lieutenant. His salary last year was $66,512.

On four occasions, Bundy filed appeals of workers’ compensation cases in Mahoning County Common Pleas Court against Youngstown for two incidents after his claims were rejected by the BWC and the Ohio Industrial Commission.

Two cases involved a Sept. 24, 2020, episode in which Bundy contended he was injured when responding to a structure fire and a ceiling collapsed on him. Two other cases were filed after Bundy claimed he was injured when he slipped and fell on Feb. 1, 2021, while on the job.

In all of the cases, the city disputed the claims, and Bundy voluntarily dismissed the appeals.

The city was going to make financial settlements with Bundy in the two cases, but no money was given to him. The city held off on paying the settlements at the request of the attorney general’s office, which was investigating the separate claim.

Bundy’s LinkedIn page shows he’s worked as an investigator for EFI Global since June 2018, as a private investigator since July 2012, and as an emergency medical technician since May 2009.

Bundy also was arrested April 3, 2023, by the Portage County Sheriff’s Office and charged with assaulting an employee of a vehicle towing business in Deerfield.

Kevin T. Poland, a Portage County Municipal Court judge, found Bundy guilty of attempted assault, a second-degree misdemeanor. Bundy was given a 90-day suspended jail sentence, was fined $500 with $450 of it suspended and was placed on probation for a year.