GALVESTON, Texas (AP) — A personal aide to a now-former Southeast Texas mayor has been sentenced to 10 years of probation for embezzling more than $360,000 from the city leader.

Prosecutors in Galveston say Mary Louise Castano stole from then-Galveston Mayor Lyda Ann Thomas. Castano must also repay nearly $160,000 as part of her guilty plea to felony theft.

Recommended Stories

Mamdani gives specific instructions in Spanish on how to engage ICE

Deadly Paris shooting suspected to be ‘racist terrorist attack’

Appeals court sides with Trump on indefinite illegal immigrant detention policy