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A 37-year-old Fort Wayne woman pleaded guilty to theft Monday morning, admitting to stealing more than $500,000 from her employer.
Allison Poulson, of the 5300 block of Goshen Road, pleaded guilty in Allen Superior Court to a Class C felony count of theft and a Class D felony count of fraud.
In exchange for her guilty plea with prosecutors, two Class C felony charges of forgery will be dismissed when she is sentenced in December.
According to court documents, Poulson worked as property manager for Edgewood Estates, a local mobile home park. From January 2006 until the summer of 2008, Poulson wrote checks to herself from the business accounts, opened a credit card in her name off an unauthorized company account, took out cash advances on the card and kept rent payments for herself. Some of her activity occurred after her boss lost his eyesight.
When interviewed by police, Poulson said she was stressed by a positive HIV diagnosis and said her boss harassed her. She said she wrote checks to herself in part to cover gambling expenses, according to court documents.
When she is sentenced, Poulson faces no more than two years in prison or on home detention or work release. She also faces four years on probation and $524,123 in restitution, according to court documents.
