Ex-Prison Guard Sentenced In Theft From Victorville Store

VICTORVILLE (AP) — A former state prison guard has been sentenced to jail for stealing $3,000 worth of goods from a Victorville Target store while in uniform.

The San Bernardino Sun says Tonya Henderson was sentenced Wednesday to 120 days in jail after pleading no contest to grand theft.

The 41-year-old Adelanto woman was arrested a few days after Christmas in 2009. Authorities say she was in uniform and with her 6-year-old son when she stole items that included a big-screen TV, a video game console and a steam cleaner.

Henderson was a corrections officer at the California Institution for Men in Chino from 2002 until she resigned in May.

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