Payroll clerk given five years for theft while demolition company owner was critically ill.
A payroll clerk was sentenced Thursday to five years in prison and ordered to repay $367,454 to the Fresno company from which she stole while the owner was in critical condition in the hospital.
Nora Arambula, 38, never said she was sorry for stealing from Kroeker Inc., a family-run demolition and recycling service on Chestnut Avenue south of Highway 99, Kroeker family members said.
Her theft led to nine employees being laid off, and it forced the company to borrow money to stay in business, family spokesman Jeff Kroeker told Judge Jon Nick Kapetan in Fresno County Superior Court.
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