{"id":256536,"date":"2026-07-31T18:30:10","date_gmt":"2026-07-31T18:30:10","guid":{"rendered":"https:\/\/www.newsbeep.com\/us-pa\/256536\/"},"modified":"2026-07-31T18:30:10","modified_gmt":"2026-07-31T18:30:10","slug":"woman-who-stole-188k-from-lancaster-county-employer-guilty-in-884k-berks-county-business-theft-local-news","status":"publish","type":"post","link":"https:\/\/www.newsbeep.com\/us-pa\/256536\/","title":{"rendered":"Woman who stole $188K from Lancaster County employer guilty in $884K Berks County business theft | Local News"},"content":{"rendered":"<p>A West Cocalico Township woman who admitted stealing about $188,000 from Lancaster Foundry Supply Co. when she was its controller pleaded guilty recently in Berks County Court to stealing nearly $900,000 from a former employer.<\/p>\n<p>Kimberly Rossanese, 44, pleaded guilty to one count of theft on July 21, and Berks County Judge Patrick T. Barrett sentenced her to 11\u00bd to 23 months in Berks County Jail, followed by 18 years of probation. She must also repay $884,966 in restitution.<\/p>\n<p>Court records detailing the theft were not immediately obtainable Friday, but the Reading Eagle reported that Rossanese stole the money between 2020 and 2024 when she was a bookkeeper at CertaPro Painters of Reading.<\/p>\n<p>Rossanese pleaded guilty in Lancaster County Court on Jan. 21 to theft for stealing from East Lampeter Township-based Lancaster Foundry Supply, and Lancaster County Judge Dennis Reinaker sentenced her to five to eight months in Lancaster County Prison.<\/p>\n<p>Reinaker also sentenced Rossanese to probation for nearly 10 years and ordered her to pay remaining restitution of about $167,000.<\/p>\n<p>\n                Success! An email has been sent to  with a link to confirm list signup.\n            <\/p>\n<p>\n                Error! There was an error processing your request.\n            <\/p>\n","protected":false},"excerpt":{"rendered":"A West Cocalico Township woman who admitted stealing about $188,000 from Lancaster Foundry Supply Co. when she was&hellip;\n","protected":false},"author":2,"featured_media":256537,"comment_status":"","ping_status":"","sticky":false,"template":"","format":"standard","meta":{"footnotes":""},"categories":[11],"tags":[31,128,130,129],"class_list":["post-256536","post","type-post","status-publish","format-standard","has-post-thumbnail","category-reading","tag-crime","tag-reading-city","tag-reading-city-headlines","tag-reading-city-news"],"_links":{"self":[{"href":"https:\/\/www.newsbeep.com\/us-pa\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/posts\/256536","targetHints":{"allow":["GET"]}}],"collection":[{"href":"https:\/\/www.newsbeep.com\/us-pa\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/posts"}],"about":[{"href":"https:\/\/www.newsbeep.com\/us-pa\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/types\/post"}],"author":[{"embeddable":true,"href":"https:\/\/www.newsbeep.com\/us-pa\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/users\/2"}],"replies":[{"embeddable":true,"href":"https:\/\/www.newsbeep.com\/us-pa\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/comments?post=256536"}],"version-history":[{"count":0,"href":"https:\/\/www.newsbeep.com\/us-pa\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/posts\/256536\/revisions"}],"wp:featuredmedia":[{"embeddable":true,"href":"https:\/\/www.newsbeep.com\/us-pa\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/media\/256537"}],"wp:attachment":[{"href":"https:\/\/www.newsbeep.com\/us-pa\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/media?parent=256536"}],"wp:term":[{"taxonomy":"category","embeddable":true,"href":"https:\/\/www.newsbeep.com\/us-pa\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/categories?post=256536"},{"taxonomy":"post_tag","embeddable":true,"href":"https:\/\/www.newsbeep.com\/us-pa\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/tags?post=256536"}],"curies":[{"name":"wp","href":"https:\/\/api.w.org\/{rel}","templated":true}]}}