(KMZA)--The former Marshall County Clerk has been convicted of felony misuse of public funds.

Kansas Attorney General Derek Schmidt, in a news release, said 44-year-old Sonya Stohs, of Marysville, pleaded guilty Tuesday in Marshall County District Court to one count of felony misuse of public funds.

District Judge John Weingart accepted the plea and scheduled sentencing for January 7.

Stohs was charged in July following an investigation by the Kansas Bureau of Investigation and the U.S. Secret Service.

The release says the investigation showed between May 2013 and April of this year, Stohs used funds belonging to Marshall County to pay for various personal items, in excess of $100,000.

She remains free on a $10,000 bond.