After a yearlong process, Jolene McCallum pleaded guilty to theft from Golden Plains Recreation Center and was sentenced in Phillips County District Court on Tuesday, April 20.

GPRC is a nonprofit doing business as the Peerless Theatre/Center. McCallum, 55, served as a GPRC board member and was handling some employee responsibilities as well.

Through a plea agreement tentatively adopted in court March 16, McCallum pleaded guilty to theft, a Class 1 misdemeanor.

The district attorney’s office, represented by Steven Crague, in accepting the plea on behalf of the people (GPRC), agreed to dismiss...