FRENCH VALLEY - A night custodian assigned to the Lake Elsinore Unified School District offices has pleaded guilty to two identity theft-related charges after stealing the personnel files of some district employees.

Suzette Lynn Miko, 29, of Lake Elsinore, pleaded guilty Thursday at Southwest Justice Center in French Valley.

Riverside County Superior Court Judge Sherrill Ellsworth then sentenced Miko to three years of formal probation and told Miko she must serve 82 days on consecutive weekends in county jail beginning June 8, according to court records.

Miko was arrested April 30 after sheriff's deputies found portions of the personnel files of more than 100 school district employees in the home of one of Miko's friends, authorities said. Deputies first went to the man's home to question him as part of an unrelated domestic violence investigation, according to authorities.

Additional evidence of identity theft was found at Miko's home, deputies said. The documents deputies found during their investigation included original copies of information sheets for individual employees, including administrators, teachers and nonteaching staff members, a school district official said last week.

Miko was released five days after her arrest and could not be reached for comment Friday.

She remained on paid administrative leave Friday and no decision about her employment status with the district is expected until Monday, John Wise, assistant superintendent of administrative services, said Friday.

A co-defendant in Miko's case, Edward Thomas Padilla, 30, also pleaded guilty Thursday to an identity theft count. He was also sentenced to three years on probation and must also go to jail on consecutive weekends beginning June 8, court records state.

Miko still has two other criminal cases pending, both under an alias, according to records.

Under the name of Chanel Pamela Gray, she is scheduled to appear at Southwest Justice Center on Tuesday for a hearing regarding a charge of receiving stolen property, records state. On April 16, she pleaded not guilty in that case.

She has yet to enter a plea in another case under the Chanel Gray alias, according to court records. In that case, she is scheduled to be arraigned June 8 on a misdemeanor count of soliciting for prostitution, records state. She was issued a ticket in April in the Perris area in that case, records state.

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