A 41-year-old residential health aide was sentenced Thursday to six months in prison and ordered to pay back more than $7,000 to a 80-year-old woman who was in her care at a Kahala senior citizen home.

Vevesi Fiso pleaded no contest to the theft in October. Before she was sentenced Fiso left Hawaii, and investigators with the state Medicaid Fraud Control Unit tracked her to Alaska. She was arrested by Alaska state troopers and extradited to Hawaii last month.

The state attorney general’s office said Fiso took more than $6,000 from a resident of Kahala Nui in early 2010. Fiso took the victim’s ATM card and code from the victim’s purse.

Fiso also drove the woman’s car without permission and damaged the car.

Fiso had been employed by an independent Honolulu health care agency with which the victim had contracted to receive care at the Kahala facility. The agency that employed Fiso was not involved in the theft.

Circuit Judge Richard Perkins imposed a six-month prison term Thursday and ordered Fiso to repay the victim. Fiso will likely be assessed the costs of her extradition and will be deported to Western Samoa after her sentence is completed, according to the Department of Homeland Security.