An aide at a state mental health facility is facing felony and misdemeanor charges for allegedly submitting a false insurance claim.

Duane C. Hayes, 40, of Utica, was charged with first-degree falsifying business records and second-degree criminal possession of a forged instrument, both felonies. He has also been charged with attempted petit larceny.

The charges stem from an investigation conducted by the state inspector general’s office. Hayes, a security hospital treatment assistant at the Central New York Psychiatric Center in Marcy, is accused of filing false documents to his personal supplemental insurance carrier claiming he was on workers’ compensation and unable to work from Feb. 10, 2016 through June 15, 2016.

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