OGALLALA, Neb. (AP) — The Dundy County attorney has been convicted of one theft charge and acquitted of two more in Keith County.

Local media reports that Blake Edwards is scheduled to be sentenced on Aug. 15 in Keith County District Court.

Authorities said that when Edwards was Keith County attorney, about $18,000 in county money was taken between 2007 and 2009. Edwards said he used the money to buy office equipment for a diversion program, reimbursements for other official purchases and for donations to a nonprofit organization.

Edwards lost his re-election bid in 2010 and then became county attorney for Dundy County.

Related charges filed against Edwards’ wife, Shirley, were dropped. She’d worked in the Keith County prosecutor’s office.

Blake Edwards didn’t return a call Thursday from The Associated Press.