ERIE, Pa.—A former northwestern Pennsylvania county prison guard and his supervisor wife, who has also lost her job, have been accepted into a first-offender's probation program on charges they tampered with payroll records that netted the man $3,428 in pay he didn't earn last year.

The Erie Times-News ( reports Daniel and Leslie Danowski can have their arrest records expunged if they successfully complete the probation. The program does not require that they plead guilty and is reserved for nonviolent first offenders.

The Danowskis were fired in October, when the criminal charges were filed against the Erie County Prison employees. Daniel Danowski received the extra pay from February to July last year.

Forty-year-old Daniel Danowski was a guard while 39-year-old Leslie Danowski was a captain.


Information from: Erie Times-News,