Harford County Councilman Dion Guthrie pleaded “no contest” to stealing funds from the union local he led for more than 50 years in Baltimore County Circuit Court on Thursday.

Dion Guthrie has been removed from the Harford County Council after he pleaded no contest to stealing more than $23,000 from the electrical workers union he led for more than 50 years.

A Harford County Councilman pleaded nolo contendere Thursday to one felony charge of stealing funds from a union he led for more than five decades, a plea that county officials said will cost him his seat.

A Harford County councilman pleaded guilty on Thursday to stealing thousands of dollars from a union he was the president and business manager of. Dion Guthrie, 86, pleaded guilty to one felony count