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Whittaker guilty of stealing $30,210
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Samantha G. Whittaker was ordered by Circuit Court Judge Bart Stanley to serve 30 days.
A whistleblower has been sentenced to a month in jail and will be liable for repaying over $30,000 to her employer after she and her stepfather stole from the bonding agency they represented.The defendant, Samantha G. Whittaker, was ordered by Circuit Court Judge Bart Stanley to serve 30 days and make $30,210 restitution on the charge of grand theft. She was granted a three-year judicial diversion meaning she can have her record erased once her probation is complete.Her sentence comes after she went to Cumberland Bonding and informed them her stepfather and business partner, Danny Ray Elrod, had been stealing from the company. According to sheriff’s investigator Steven Carpenter, the pair had gotten into a fight and Whittaker became mad and decided to tell on her stepfather.