A Tennessee woman has been convicted of embezzling 280-thousand dollars from a bingo hall in western Kentucky where she worked.

Thirty-one-year-old Paula Marie Terrones of Clarksville pleaded guilty yesterday to three counts of forgery and two counts of theft as part of a plea agreement with prosecutors.

She was sentenced to five years on each of the five counts. Terrones won't serve prison time as long as she is repaying the debt to the Guthrie Senior Citizens Center's bingo operation, located about 24 miles southeast of Hopkinsville.

Terrones was a bookkeeper for the bingo center in Guthrie, near Clarksville, before she quit in September 2005.