The former treasurer for Federal Way American Little League, Puget Sound Junior Football Association and the Federal Way Hawks Junior Football Association was sentenced Friday to 15 days of house arrest and 15 days of community service and ordered to pay nearly $34,000 in restitution for embezzling money from the leagues.

Colleen A. Wiley, 44, pleaded guilty Jan. 18 to first-degree theft. Prosecutors say Wiley wrote unauthorized checks and an unauthorized wire transfer totaling $33,967.20.

According to court documents, the Federal Way woman stole the money from the three youth leagues between August 2007 and January 2009. King County Superior Court Judge Brian Gain sentenced Wiley on Friday at the Regional Justice Center in Kent.

Wiley, who has no prior criminal record, was charged in August with four counts of first-degree theft and six counts of second-degree theft and originally pleaded not guilty. The charges were reduced to the one count of first-degree theft in a plea agreement with prosecutors.

According to Federal Way Police documents, unauthorized checks were written from accounts connected with the three sports organizations. The Federal Way Hawks were the hardest hit. According to the 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 from checks from Wiley.

Federal Way police became involved in the investigation Feb. 23, 2009, when Klaus Nalley, commissioner of the Puget Sound Junior Football League, informed them 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.

Wiley admitted during an April 15, 2009, interview with police to writing a $4,000 check to herself from the Federal Way Hawks account, and two checks from Puget Sound Junior Football Association and Federal Way American for $3,000 each.

She stated she took the money to get her home out of foreclosure, according to police documents. “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,” according to police documents.