DENVER A former assistant branch manager at Credit Union of the Rockies was sentenced yesterday to five years in a community corrections facility and ordered to pay $275,795 restitution for stealing from the credit union’s Black Hawk branch where she worked to help finance her gambling at local casinos.
Autumn Guillot, 30, was one of two employees at the small branch and was an assistant branch manager in 2011 when the theft occurred.
Prosecutors told the court that Guillot was a regular gambler at Gilpin County casinos in 2011. Investigators found that she had lost more than $73,000 while gambling and believe some of stolen money was used at the casinos.
Guillot asked for leniency during sentencing, saying that her young son needed her, in spite of evidence that she often left the boy at home while she went to the casinos to gamble.
Credit union officials contacted police in November 2011 when an unannounced audit uncovered discrepancies in the ledger. Prosecutors said Guillot stole cash from the vault, a little at a time, and then altered the ledger to hide the theft throughout that time.
