TRURO - The county retirement board will allow former Truro fire chief E. Thomas Prada, 66, to keep his pension although he pleaded guilty June 24 to grabbing a female police dispatcher’s breasts while she worked, reports the Cape Cod Times.

The Barnstable County Retirement Association board made the decision Oct. 27 said county administrator Mark Zielinski.

Prada was employed for 49 years with the call fire department, and for the last 20 years as part-time fire chief. His annual salary in 2007 was $33,000, according to town records.

Most retirement payouts from the county pension system are based on age, years of service and an average of a retiree’s highest three annual salaries, according to a state pension official. But other factors can limit payouts, such as misappropriation of public money and criminal convictions involving violation of laws applicable to a person’s office or position, the pension official said. Read full story here.