A former postal employee in Hopkinsville is sentenced in federal court for misappropriation of postal funds greater than 100-dollars.

The U.S. Attorney's office says Chief U.S. District Judge Thomas B. Russell sentenced 37-year-old Donna Rochelle Gray to three years probation, and a four-thousand dollar fine.

Gray had pleaded guilty to embezzling money, which came into her possession in payment for stamps at the Hopkinsville Post Office between October 1st, 2006, and April 22nd, 2008.