OMAHA, Neb. (AP) — A Lincoln man has been sentenced to five years’ probation after pleading guilty to felony theft of more than $37,000 from an Omaha church.

Douglas County District Judge Thomas Otepka ordered 42-year-old Jeffrey D. Bomberger, a former employee at Dundee Presbyterian Church, to pay $6,000 in restitution and receive treatment for a gambling addiction.

Douglas County Attorney’s Office investigator Lance Ivener says Bomberger, the former director of operations at the church, admitted to using the church’s funds to gamble at keno parlors.

In November 2015, church leaders discovered Bomberger was using a church account to purchase credit cards that he said were being used for charitable donations.

Bomberger’s attorney, Jim Hoppe, says most of the church’s losses were covered by insurance.