A lieutenant with the Connecticut Department of Corrections could face time in prison himself after his arrest for workers’ compensation fraud and other charges.

Stephen E. Zaczynski, 49, of Suffield, Conn., is accused of filing a claim for workers’ compensation benefits in September 2008 for an injury he allegedly incurred while working for the state’s prison system. At the same time, officials say, he was running his own business.

The Connecticut Division of Criminal Justice alleges in an arrest warrant that Zaczynski was not entitled to the $12,656 he received in disability benefits because he was working at the time at New England Pellet, where he is the owner and operator.

The warrant further alleges that Zaczynski’s business failed to maintain its own workers’ compensation insurance required by law.

Zaczynski was arrested on single counts of workers’ compensation fraud, first-degree larceny and failure to maintain workers’ compensation insurance. He was released from custody with the promise to appear in court Oct. 20.

The charges of workers’ compensation fraud and larceny each carry a maximum prison term of 20 years and the failure to carry proper workers’ compensation insurance charge carries a maximum prison term of five years.

The Hartford Courant reports that Zaczynski’s New England Pellet is also in trouble with the state’s attorney general’s office and consumer protection commissioner after allegedly failing to deliver wood pellets to customers who pre-paid for them.

That case remains in litigation, according to the report, and Zaczynski is on paid administrative leave with the Connecticut Department of Corrections, pending an investigation.