Newport — The former Charlestown Selectboard member who in 2014 reached an agreement with the town to repay the deposit he took two years earlier for a cover for the town pool that he failed to deliver has been indicted on two felony theft charges related to his former pool and spa business.

Doug Ring was supposed to be arraigned on Monday by the Attorney General’s Office in Sullivan County Superior Court on the theft by deception charges, but failed to appear.

Reached by phone Monday night, Ring said he was unaware of the charges.

“I don’t know nothing about it,” Ring said. “Pretty sad the (expletive) attorney general doesn’t have the (expletive) to call me and tell me.”

Ring also said he tried to reach out to the two couples named in the charges to work out a payment plan.

“No one has gotten back to me,” he said.

Assistant Attorney General John Garrigan with the Consumer Protection and Antitrust Bureau said it will be up to the court on how to proceed and whether an arrest warrant will be issued for Ring, whose address is listed as 58 Bowen Road Crossing in Charlestown.

Court officials said on Monday the case is being transferred out of Sullivan County because Judge Brian Tucker has recused himself.

According to the indictment, Ring accepted a deposit of more than $1,500 from a Charlestown couple between June 15 and June 22 last year giving the “false impression” he ordered a 16-by-32 foot Bel-Aqua Pool Supply pool kit “knowing that that impression was false,” the May 25 indictment reads.

The second charge reads similarly except the money, also for more than $1,500, was accepted from a Newport couple between July 6 and July 29, 2015, for a Clearwater spa. According to the indictment, Ring then “deceptively and falsely” told the customers it could not be delivered because of a “shortage in staff and factory workers at Clearwater Spas,” which he knew was not true. Each felony charge carries a possible prison sentence of 7½ to 15 years and/or a $4,000 fine.

Ring also was indicted on two misdemeanor charges — “unfair or deceptive act or practice” related to the same two transactions.

In 2014, Ring was ordered to make monthly payments totaling $6,600 for not delivering a pool cover that the town ordered from his business, Ringscape Pool and Spa, in December 2011, while he was on the Selectboard.

Selectboard member Steve Neil said on Monday that Ring has repaid the town in full, though the amount did not cover court costs or attorney fees.

Ring has had a few locations for his pool and spa business including Washington Street and Pleasant Street in Claremont and Interchange Drive in West Lebanon. Those stores are no longer open. It is not clear whether he is operating another store.

Patrick O’Grady can be reached at pogclmt@gmail.com.