By Vinde Wells

vwells@oglecounty

news.com

A Polo woman was sentenced in federal court in Rockford Tuesday to two days in prison and two years supervised release for embezzling almost $60,000 from the local bank where she worked.

Kayla Bergstrom, 46, was also sentenced to six months of home confinement and ordered to perform 250 hours of community service work.

Joseph Pederson, Assistant U.S. Attorney for the Northern District of Illinois, said the home confinement means Bergstrom will be allowed to leave home only for employment.

Bergstrom pleaded guilty in March to embezzling $59,560.88 from First State Bank Shannon-Polo between Feb. 23, 2010 and Feb. 3, 2014.

She was a first vice-president at the bank’s Polo branch and had the highest security level assigned in the bank’s software program which controlled all customer bank accounts, the bank’s general ledger accounts, adding new accounts, and the maintenance of all bank accounts.

Pederson said Bergstrom was not ordered to make restitution because she has already repaid the bank.

Bergstrom was indicted Oct. 20 in federal court in Rockford, and entered a not guilty plea during her arraignment two days later.