Ex-Little League Treasurer Gets Two-Year Probation

Updated 4.8.12, 12:30 p.m.

was sentenced on Thursday to two years of probation for stealing $8.600 from a youth baseball organization in 2010.

Summit County Common Pleas Court Judge Tammy O’Brien gave her 150 hours of community service and ordered her to pay back the money, which she has, according to the Falls News Press.

She was also handed an eight-month suspended sentence.

“Under the new sentencing guidelines, she could not be sent to prison because she has no felony record and this was a nonviolent offense,” said April Wiesner, the director of communications for the prosecutor’s office.

Wingate, the former treasurer of the Cuyahoga Falls South Little League, was found guilty of grand theft, a fourth-degree felony, in March by a common pleas court jury.

Editor's Note: It was originally reported by Patch that Julie Wingate received two years of house arrest, which was inaccurate. She received two years of probation after being found guilty of grand theft in March.