Daphne Ann Brenon, 53, of Westlake Village pleaded guilty in September to two counts of grand theft and one count of filing a false tax return. She admitted to stealing more than $150,000 from two area homeowners associations.

From 1998 to 2004, Brenon was the property manager for the Spanish Hills Homeowners Association in Camarillo. Following an investigation by the Ventura County Sheriff’s Department and the California Franchise Tax Board, Brenon was arrested and charged with stealing more than $400,000 from the HOA.

According to the Ventura County district attorney’s office, she and her employer, Dahl Davis, were the recipients of unauthorized HOA checks.

Ventura County Superior Court records show the first violation date was Jan. 11, 2000, and that Brenon was charged with 21 felony offenses.

She also was charged with failing to report the unauthorized income on her taxes.

Brenon also had checks from the Spanish Hills association and from the Westlake Canyon Oaks Homeowners Association written to a friend who she falsely claimed to be a contractor, said Howard Wise, senior deputy district attorney.

Reynaldo Bernabe was Brenon’s co-defendant in the scheme to write the unauthorized checks to Brenon’s friend.

In June 2007, Bernabe pleaded guilty to grand theft, received one year in jail and was placed on felony probation for five years.

Sentencing for Brenon is scheduled for Nov. 4 in Ventura County Court. She’s expected to receive up to five months in state prison, Wise said.