No prison time for $22,800 police employee theft

No prison time for $22,800 police employee theft

WARREN

Rose M. Wilson, a 20-year city employee with no previous criminal record, will not serve prison or jail time for stealing $22,800 while working as a clerk at the Warren Police Department.

Instead, Judge Andrew Logan of Trumbull County Common Pleas Court ordered her to serve 60 days of electronically monitored house arrest and five years probation. She was also ordered to perform 40 hours of community service.

She could be ordered to spend up to three years in prison if she violates her probation.

The $22,800 will be removed from her Public Employee Retirement System pension, said Chris Becker, assistant Trumbull County prosecutor.

Wilson, who worked in the police records department, pleaded guilty earlier to third-degree felony theft in office for taking the money starting in late 2009 from a safe she alone used.