A Cranberry Township woman was sentenced Thursday in Butler County Common Pleas Court to serve 30 to 66 months in state prison and pay $153,496 in restitution after pleading guilty to felony theft charges in two cases.

Kimberly Cook, 59, pleaded guilty to a theft by unlawful taking charge filed in 2017 by Evans City-Seven Fields Regional Police for stealing $73,344 from Hines Ward’s Table 86 restaurant in Seven Fields, where she was employed.

Police said she took cash payments from customers, but rang up the sales as gift card transactions and kept the cash for herself from August 2015 through the end of October 2017. Police said she also used the restaurants point of sale system to take gift cards and make it look like customers purchased the cards.

In addition to the 30-to-66-month sentence, she was ordered to pay restitution totaling $73,496 to restaurant co-owner Howard Shiller. The restaurant closed in 2019.

In a second case, Cook was sentenced to concurrently serve 12 to 24 months in prison and pay $80,000 in restitution to Generational Dental Associates of Cranberry Township after pleading guilty to a theft by unlawful taking charge filed by Cranberry Township police in May this year.

She worked at the dental office as a clerk beginning in 2021, and police said she stole cash payments from patients and entered credit card payments for the transactions. Some patients told police that Cook encouraged them to pay in cash.