HOLTON (AP) – The former postmaster of the Whiting post office is serving two years of probation for embezzling public funds.

Fifty-year-old Terri L. Morris of Holton also was ordered last week to pay $5,338 in restitution for embezzling from the post office in Whiting.

The Topeka Capital-Journal reports that U.S. Postal Service investigators found more than $7,000 missing during a surprise audit at the post office in 2010.

Prosecutors say Morris took the money and filed fraudulent statements to the postal service to cover the thefts.