Daphne Ann Brenon, 53, of Westlake Village was sentenced to jail Dec. 15 to serve time for grand theft.

Ventura County Superior Court Judge Bruce Young sentenced Brenon to four years and eight months in prison and fined her $915,000.

She had 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. After 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 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, Brenon’s co-defendant in the scheme to write the unauthorized checks to Brenon’s friend, pleaded guilty in 2007 to grand theft and was sentenced to one year in jail and five years of probation.

—Nancy Needham