PHOENIX (AP) - The former manager of the Tolleson Union High School bookstore who was accused of stealing more than $120,000 for personal use including gambling at a casino has pleaded guilty.
Maricopa County Superior Court officials say Brenda Lynn Busse had a change of plea hearing Tuesday and pleaded guilty to fraud schemes and theft.
She is scheduled to be sentenced on March 23.
Busse was arrested in December 2015 and indicted on one count each of fraudulent schemes and artifices, theft and misuse of public monies.
Prosecutors say the then 56-year-old Busse siphoned cash payments made to the Tolleson Union High bookstore between July 2007 and June 2011 and allegedly manipulated computer data to hide the theft.
School district officials opened an investigation when they noticed irregularities in revenue records.
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