Former Sugar Grove bank teller gets jail, probation in $94,000 theft
A former Sugar Grove bank teller was sentenced this week to four years probation, 180 days in jail and ordered to pay $94,000 in restitution after pleading guilty to stealing from Heartland Bank over a four-year period, according to Kane County court records.
Alyson Ruggie, 31, of Plano, did not have a previous criminal record and can be resentenced to up to seven years in prison if she violates probation.
She surrendered to authorities last summer after an audit at the bank, 799 Heartland Drive, revealed a $104,000 discrepancy.
According to an affidavit used to secure a search warrant in the case, after Ruggie's arrest, she told authorities she stole money from the bank in early 2011 and 2012 to help pay her mortgage, which was in foreclosure.
Ruggie was accused of stealing the bank's money, not that of customers.
A message left with her attorney, William King, was not returned.
Ruggie pleaded guilty in late May and threw herself at the mercy of Judge Clint Hull, whose sentence issued Tuesday also includes another $1,890 in fines and fees, records show. Ruggie also can have her sentence cut in half for good behavior in jail.