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MODESTO, CA—A printing company’s former office manager will be spending the next year in jail after pleading no contest in December to embezzlement and identity theft charges. Prosecutors said that Jessica Sue Hoover, 25, stole $76,000 from Gowans Printing between January 1, 2007, and July 14, 2008, according to the Modesto Bee. In addition to the jail time, Hoover was ordered to pay restitution and court fees.