A local woman who worked for the Chattanooga branch of Southern Credit Union will have to serve 15 months in prison and pay back nearly $400,000 she stole while working there.
Cheryl Watson was sentenced in federal court Wednesday by U.S. District Judge Harry S. “Sandy” Mattice to the prison term plus five years supervised released following the prison term and ordered to pay $396,961.57 in restitution.
From March 2, 2006, until March 8, 2010, Watson transferred money on multiple occasions from the credit union’s exceptions account, an account “where monies are held by (the credit union) until needed to correct daily account errors.”
She would then take money from that temporary holding place and disburse it to her personal accounts.
Watson faced a range of two to nearly three years, but was granted a lower sentence.
For more see tomorrow’s Times Free Press.
Todd South covers courts, poverty, technology, military and veterans for the Times Free Press. He has worked at the paper since 2008 and previously covered crime and safety in Southeast Tennessee and North Georgia. Todd’s hometown is Dodge City, Kan. He served five years in the U.S. Marine Corps and deployed to Iraq before returning to school for his journalism degree from the University of Georgia. Todd previously worked at the Anniston (Ala.) Star. Contact ...
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