By Stephanie Haney For Dailymail.com and Associated Press
Published: 14:54 BST, 1 April 2019 | Updated: 14:54 BST, 1 April 2019
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A Mississippi chef who competed on two Food Network shows and admitted to embezzling $10,000 from a former employer has been ordered into a three-year pre-trial diversion program.
The sentence means that 47-year-old Stacie Meehan Vande Wetering could avoid a felony record if she complies with the program's requirements, which include drug and alcohol testing.
Vande Wetering, who is also known as 'Cheffy' and previously competed on the Food Network's 'Guy's Grocery Games' (hosted by Guy Fieri) and 'Beat Bobby Flay' shows, admitted to embezzling from a local yacht club while in court last week, according to the Sun Herald of Biloxi.
The chef was also ordered last week to pay back the $10,319 in embezzled funds, along with other fines.
Mississippi chef Stacie Meehan Vande Wetering, 47, who competed on Food Network's 'Guy's Grocery Games' and 'Beat Bobby Flay' will avoid jail time despite admitting to embezzling $10,319 from Pascagoula's Singing River
