A former state Family Drug Court clerk pleaded guilty Thursday to theft and paid back the money she stole by spending $930 worth of Kmart gift cards meant as rewards for program participants.

Filo Lise Atuatasi-Pouono faces no more than four years of probation, with no jail time, when she gets sentenced in July, according to the terms of her plea agreement with the state Attorney General’s Office.  She has asked for a deferral of her guilty plea for an opportunity to keep her criminal record conviction-free.

State Circuit Judge Richard Perkins will decide at sentencing whether to grant Atuatasi-Pouono a deferral.

Second-degree theft is a Class C felony punishable by up to five years in prison and a $10,000 fine.