A Jim Thorpe woman, who along with her husband admitted stealing a large of amount of cash from an ambulance association, was sentenced to a prison term in Carbon County court.

Danielle Thelora Weaver, 55, was sentenced by Judge Joseph J. Matika to serve one to 23 months in the county prison followed by three years probation.

It is the same sentence her husband, Donald K. Weaver, 55, received last May by Matika after he pleaded guilty to one count of theft, as his wife did.

Both were charged with taking $70,000 from the Palmerton Ambulance Association.

In both sentences Matika ordered the Weavers to make restitution of $70,000 to the ambulance association. Matika said the total amount due to the association is $70,000.

He said Thelora Weaver will make payments on the amount as her husband is doing and the total due is the $70,000, not $140,000. He said if, for some reason, her husband stops making payments she will have to continue with the restitution.

At the time of Donald Weaver’s plea, Assistant District Attorney Joseph D. Perilli, who prosecuted the case, said the agreement was reached after it was determined by his office that they would have a hard time proving the theft involved $144,000. He said there was no forensic audit done, but the figure was determined by members of the governing board of directors. He said there was some poor bookkeeping and some poor decisions made. Referring to the amount taken, he called it a “loose number.”

Matika said that the case called for a jail term based on the amount taken.

Thelora Weaver told the court, “I apologize for all that is going on. It will never happen again.”

Court-appointed attorney Michael P. Gough told the court Thelora Weaver has no prior criminal contact. He asked that she be granted work release privileges so she can continue to work to pay off what she owes. He said she is a bus driver for a local school district.

Matika ordered her to pay more than $44,000 to the ambulance association and more than $25,000 to the insurance carrier. It was noted at Weaver’s sentencing that the insurance carrier paid the association $100,000.

She was also ordered to pay court costs of more than $1,000, a $50 per month supervision fee while on parole and probation, stay off the association’s property, supply a DNA sample, get a mental health evaluation and render 100 hours of community service.

She was granted work release and must report to the jail on Jan. 13 at 6 p.m. to begin serving her sentence.