COEUR d'ALENE - A Coeur d'Alene woman on Wednesday was sentenced in federal court to 30 months in prison for making false entries in the books and records of the bank where she was once the assistant branch manager.

Mary A. Head, 59, also was ordered to serve five years of supervised release.

U.S. District Court Judge Edward J. Lodge ordered Head to pay $400,000 in restitution and perform 100 hours of community service. She pleaded guilty to the charge on Dec. 7.

According to the plea agreement, from 1993 to 2009, Head was employed by Bank of America at its Hayden Lake branch in Hayden.

In 1997, Head became the assistant branch manager, and was solely responsible for control of the automatic teller machine, which required her to balance the machine on a regular basis.

Beginning sometime in 1997, Head began taking money out of the automatic teller machine to use for a variety of purposes.

According to the plea agreement, Head admitted to making false entries in the books, reports and statements of Bank of America in order to disguise her criminal activity. It continued until it was discovered by the bank in December 2009, after a new imaging automatic teller machine was installed.

The case was investigated by the Federal Bureau of Investigation and Bank of America corporate security.