A federal judge sentenced the owner of an Asian food market on Maui to a six-month jail term Monday for taking from her employees back-overtime money owed to them and for lying to the U.S. Department of Labor about it.

Martina B. Santos, 55, owner of Paradise Asian Foods Inc., which does business in Kahu-lui as Paradise Supermart, has until April 28 to turn herself in to begin serving her sentence.

In addition to the jail term, U.S. District Judge J. Michael Seabright fined Santos $10,000 and ordered her to repay her employees the $21,526 she took from them.

The individual amounts owed to the six employees range from $600 to $6,675.

Santos pleaded guilty in October to obstructing the Labor Department’s enforce