A Gladys woman was sentenced to two years probation in U.S. District Court in Lynchburg on Wednesday after earlier pleading guilty to misappropriating postal service funds.
Tasha Layne worked at the Naruna Post Office in 2007, according to the U.S. Attorney’s Office.
In a June hearing, Assistant U.S. Attorney Ashley Neese told a judge that a postal inspector audit found a shortage of more than $9,000 under Layne’s account. Neese said Layne admitted taking the money orders to give her boyfriend money and to make car payments.
Under a plea agreement, a charge related to embezzlement of the money orders was dismissed.
During Wednesday’s hearing, a judge accepted a cashier’s check payable to the U.S. Postal Service for $9,452 as restitution. Layne was ordered not to work in a job handling monetary instruments as a term of her sentence.
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