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Indiana Circ Clerk Sentenced for TheftA former St. Joseph County (Ind.) Public Library circulation clerk who pleaded guilty to stealing some $43,000 worth of library materials was sentenced September 10 to a year’s probation. Carol Jaworski admitted to the theft in March, but sentencing was delayed because of a disagreement on the amount of restitution to the library, the South Bend Tribune reported September 11. The plea agreement reduces the felony theft charge to a misdemeanor, places Jaworski on probation for one year, and orders her to pay the library back. The restitution amount, still unresolved, centers on the amount it will cost to ship more than 2,400 recovered books, videotapes, CDs, and DVDs back from Grand Forks, North Dakota, and Phoenix, Arizona, where Jaworski had sent them to her adult daughters. In delivering the sentence, St. Joseph Superior Court Judge Jerome Frese told Jaworski’s attorney to come to an agreement with prosecutors on an amount and submit it to him within 90 days. Jaworski, who was fired from the library in August 2001, had taken the library materials after logging them into the circulation record as either on the shelf or in transit to another branch. Posted September 16, 2002. |
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