The King County Prosecutor’s Office has officially charged a 43-year-old Federal Way woman with 10 counts of theft after nearly $34,000 went missing from three local sports organizations.

Colleen A. Wiley will be arraigned Aug. 16 at the Norm Maleng Regional Justice Center in Kent on the 10 felony charges.

King County Prosecutor Dan Satterberg filed the theft charges Tuesday, over 15 months after the Federal Way Police Department forwarded a determination of probable cause to the Prosecutor’s Office with a recommendation to charge Wiley. According to Federal Way Police, the delay stems from the Prosecutor’s Office gathering detailed bank records of the accounts in question.

The charges include four counts of theft in the first degree, which are all considered Class B felonies and carry a maximum sentence of 10 years in jail and/or a $20,000 fine in each instance. Wiley was also charged with six counts of theft in the second degree, which are Class C felonies and carry a max of five years in jail and/or a $10,000 fine on each count.

According to Federal Way Police documents, unauthorized checks were written from accounts connected with the Puget Sound Junior Football Association, the Federal Way Hawks Junior Football Association and Federal Way American Little League.

According to police, Wiley was a treasurer of all three organizations at different points and had access to their bank accounts.

The Federal Way Hawks football program appears to be the hardest hit. According to the nearly two-month police investigation, the Hawks lost a total of $17,837.45 from unauthorized checks signed by Wiley. The Puget Sound Junior Football Association, which consists of six franchises in South King County, reported $9,241.72 in suspicious checks and Federal Way American’s total loss is $6,888.03 for a grand total of $33,967.20.

According to documents, Wiley did admit during an April 15, 2009, interview at the Federal Way Police Department to writing a $4,000 check from the Federal Way Hawks account, and two checks from Puget Sound Junior Football Association and Federal Way American for $3,000 each.

“Wiley stated she took the money to get her home out of foreclosure,” police documents said. “She adamantly denied taking more than the $10,000 she admitted to taking for her mortgage. Her house was in foreclosure and Wiley said she used the $10,000 to get her mortgage up to date.”

The admission came after Wiley initially denied any knowledge of missing money or writing unauthorized checks, police said.

According to police documents, Federal Way police became involved in the investigation Feb. 23, 2009, when Klaus Nalley, the commissioner of the Puget Sound Junior Football League, informed him that he found suspicious activity in the league’s checkbook, and that Wiley was the only person who had access to the checks in the league’s accounts.

Nalley told Federal Way police there were 10 transactions totaling $9,241.72 that were unauthorized by the PSJFL board. He also provided police with copies of the suspicious checks, according to documents. The checks were written from July 2007 to December 2008, including a $3,000 check for “cash” on Aug. 20, 2007 and a $3,000 check written to Federal Way American Little League on Jan. 1, 2008.

During the interview, Nalley also informed police that Wiley was also the treasurer for the Federal Way Junior Football Hawks and Federal Way American Little League, documents said.

Current Federal Way American vice president Robert Clinton spoke to police on March 19, 2009, and told them Wiley had been the treasurer of the league since 2006, according to documents. Clinton located four unauthorized checks in the amount of $6,888.03 and that all the checks were signed by Wiley and not authorized by the league’s board.

Federal Way Hawks president Mike Barnhart provided Federal Way police with a statement on April 9, 2009, and told them the league had located 10 unauthorized checks from two different accounts and a wire transfer for a loan payment to Citi Residential in the amount of $4,000, according to documents.

“Barnhart stated all checks were signed by Wiley and not authorized by the FWJF board,” documents said. The checks were written from April 2008 to Nov. 2008 in the amount of $17,837.45.

Wiley is currently out on her own recognizance and has no criminal history, according to the Prosecutor’s Office. As a condition of her release, Wiley must have no contact with the Puget Sound Football League, Federal Way American Little League and the Federal Way Hawks football association.