A former road district clerk will spend the next five years on probation after receiving a suspended sentence for three charges she pleaded guilty to earlier this year.

54-year-old Stephanie D Meyer of Slater learned Monday, Mar. 9 in a Saline County courtroom that prison sentences of up to ten years would be suspended in favor of probation. She had pleaded guilty in January to charges that she stole at least $25,000 from the Gilliam Special Road District, where she had served as the district’s clerk for nearly a decade, as well as forgery and fraudulent use of a credit device. Meyer had been charged last year after an investigation by the Saline County Sheriff’s Office found that Meyer had written checks to herself totaling over $75,000, which deputies say was $46,000 in excess of her annual salary.

Meyer had initially pleaded not guilty to the charges in June, but decided in January to change her plea to guilty on all three counts she was facing.