Serving Gogebic, Iron and Ontonagon Counties

Former Ironwood Township treasurer gets 38 months in prison

By RICHARD JENKINS

[email protected]

BESSEMER — While a last-minute defense motion delayed her fate for a little over a week, former Ironwood Township Treasurer Jyl Renee Olson-DeRosso left Gogebic County Circuit Court in handcuffs Thursday to begin her sentence.

Judge Michael Pope sentenced Olson-DeRosso, 48, to 38 months in prison for the most serious charge she faced — embezzlement by a public official. She was also sentenced on the other nine felony counts she faced — five counts of forgery, refusing to turn over records to the successor treasurer, removal and destruction of publ...