Crime & Safety

Disgraced Youth Soccer Official Won't be Sentenced Until Judge Knows How Much She Stole From League

Mitzi Giron is the second youth soccer official in the past three years to face jail time for embezzling from a Healdsburg youth soccer league.

A woman who pleaded guilty to stealing thousands of dollars from a Healdsburg youth soccer league won't know how much time she'll spend behind bars until a county judge is certain how much she stole.

Mitzi Giron, a 30-year-old former president and treasurer of the league, faces up to a year in jail, according to the Santa Rosa Press Democrat. She embezzled from the league using a debit card, but prosecutors haven't worked out how many of her purchases were legitimate and how many were fraudulent, the paper reported.

The amount was somewhere between $22,000 and $51,000, a prosecutor said.

In a bid to reduce her jail time, Giron has reportedly repaid $10,000 of the theft as of Tuesday.

In 2011, another former official from the league was sentenced to jail time for embezzling: Kyle Hoffman, who was 38 at the time, stole $58,000 but repaid $12,000, according to earlier reports. He got nine months in jail.

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