Girard woman sentenced for stealing from her company

WARREN — A Girard woman has been sentenced to 10 days in Trumbull County Jail, five years’ probation and ordered to repay part of the $100,000 she stole from a Warren alarm system company where she worked.

Ann Dean, 52, of Aspen Court, was sentenced in Trumbull County Common Pleas Court this week after pleading guilty earlier to aggravated theft.

Chris Becker, an assistant county prosecutor, said Dean stole money from January 2004 to October 2007 while she worked as an accounting clerk at YPS Integrated Systems/Sonitrol on Elm Road in Warren.

Becker said Dean would in some cases make out company checks to “cash” and cash them. In other cases, she made out checks to a vendor on the computer, then covered up the “pay to” section of the check and inserted her own name so she could cash it.

Dean also will have to submit to random drug testing, will not be allowed to consume alcohol or drugs and will have to submit to DNA testing.

Judge Peter Kontos ordered her to pay court costs and a probation fee, and to pay $38,276 in monthly amounts to the company as restitution for the thefts.

Dean paid some of the money back already, and insurance paid the rest, court officials said.