A federal judge sentenced a 48-year-old Kauai woman to 2-1/2 years in prison for stealing $364,838 on the job at the Pacific Missile Range Facility at Barking Sands.

Rowenalynn P. Yorkman pleaded guilty to wire fraud in December.

Senior U.S. District Judge Susan Oki Mollway handed Yorkman the 30-month prison sentence Monday. She also ordered her to repay the money she stole and to forfeit to the government the same amount.

Yorkman was a Navy travel clerk who processed travel claim reimbursements of government workers who traveled from PMRF. Her responsibilities included tracking and reviewing the workers’ travel orders, reviewing and approving their travel reimbursement claims and sending the payments electronically to the bank accounts.

She admitted that she used a supervisor’s authorization identification information to change and create bogus reimbursement claims and had the payments rerouted to her own bank account.

Her lawyer Craig Jerome told Mollway that Yorkman stopped what she was doing when she was questioned by investigators in June 2015 and was suspended. He admits, though, that $7,800 continued to flow into Yorkman’s bank account after that and that Yorkman did not return the money.

Yorkman needs to repay the Navy $344,912 and the rest to seven individuals who were owed travel reimbursement.

Assistant U.S. Attorney Darren Ching told Mollway that Yorkman stole most of the money, at a rate of about $10,000 per month, over a three-year period when her federal base salary was $50,000 per year.