Former bank employee receives prison sentence

ST. LOUIS -- A former Southeast Missouri bank employee was sentenced to one year and a day in prison Thursday for embezzling more than $100,000 from her bank, U.S. Attorney Ray Gruender said.

Sharon C. Miles, 49, of Viburnum, pleaded guilty in April.

Miles held various jobs at the Quad County State Bank in Viburnum from June 1995 until she was removed in February 2002. Gruender said Miles embezzled money through various means beginning in 1996, amounting to $113,000.

She was also ordered to pay all of the money back.