A former receptionist Thursday was sentenced to more than a decade of probation for four money-related crimes, including a theft from the trucking company where she worked from 2006 to 2007.

Shannon Lynn Larimore, 27, was sentenced to serve a total of 11½ years of probation while making restitution payments.

The payments will be distributed this way: $70 to Atwell's Towing in Butler Township for a bad check in 2008; $725 to the Medicine Shoppe in Butler for a bad check in 2008; $8,578 to Rent-A-Center in Butler for items she rented but never returned in March; and $12,767 to John D. Clark Trucking of Butler.

Butler County Judge Timothy McCune, who sentence Larimore, said he received a letter from officials of the trucking company. The letter indicated the company, in addition to the monetary loss, felt Larimore's action's damaged the relationship they keep with their employees.

Court records say Larimore, who had been the receptionist, wrote herself unauthorized checks from the company's account, made purchases with the company's credit card and credited herself undue overtime pay.

When company officials first noticed the theft in early 2007, they made an agreement with Larimore to subtract money from her paychecks until the company was reimbursed, according to court records.

But two days after Larimore agreed to that deal, she left work and never returned.

Larimore then was charged criminally. Months later, Larimore entered a county rehabilitation program. Had she successfully completed the program, the case would have been dismissed.

But instead, Larimore's case went back to the courts earlier this year after the defendant failed to make restitution payments, according to court records.

Earlier this month, Larimore pleaded guilty to theft and access device fraud.

As part of this new plea arrangement, prosecutors had agreed to drop the two bad check cases if Larimore paid the restitution before sentencing.

Defense attorney Kerry Starr said her client did not make those payments because Larimore used the money to find a new home for herself and her newborn baby.

"Those funds went to something more important," Starr said.