Mississippi Woman sentenced in bank embezzlement case

A Marshall County woman has been sentenced to 2 1/2 years in prison for embezzling money from a Holly Springs bank.The U.S. attorney's office says 53-year-old Deborah Shaw of Waterford was sentenced in U. S. District Court in Oxford on Tuesday.Court records show Shaw pleaded guilty last year to one count of taking nearly $325,000 from the Merchants and Farmers Bank in Holly Springs.U.S. District Judge Neal B. Biggers Jr. placed Shaw on five years' supervised release. She also was ordered to pay restitution in the amount of $327,842.Shaw was ordered to begin serving her sentence June 17 at facility chosen by the U.S. Bureau of Prisons.