WARREN — Vanessa Clark, 59, of McDonald Avenue in Niles, an employee of the Trumbull County Clerk of Courts Office, was indicted Wednesday in Trumbull County Common Pleas Court on one count of theft in office and seven counts of tampering with records.

The indictments allege that she stole from the Clerk of Courts Office. The theft in office is a fourth-degree felony, punishable by up to 18 months in prison if convicted. Tampering with records is a third-degree felony, punishable by up to three years in prison each if convicted.

The offenses were alleged to have taken place May 1 through Oct. 16, according to her indictments. The theft in office charge alleges that Clark committed any theft offense, and the property or service involved is owned by this state, any state, the United States, a country, a municipal corporation, a township or any political subdivision, department or agency of any of them.

Clark’s tampering with records charges allege that on seven listed dates in September and October, Clark “did, knowing she had no privilege to do so, and with purpose to defraud or knowing she was facilitating a fraud, did falsify, destroy, remove, conceal, alter, deface or mutilate any writing, computer software, data or record, and the writing, data, computer software or record was kept or belonged to a local, state or federal government entity.”

Trumbull County Clerk of Courts Randy Law said Wednesday that Clark is an employee of the Clerk of Courts Auto Title Department, and she was placed on unpaid administrative leave as of Wednesday.

Prior to the indictment, she was on paid administrative leave pending an investigation.

She is expected to be arraigned in the coming days, and Judge Sarah Kovoor will be presiding over Clark’s case. No arraignment date is listed in court records.

When Law was asked if he would talk about what person or agency caused the investigation to begin, he declined, saying he would “rather let the process proceed as is at this time.”

The court documents indicate that the investigative agency involved in the case is the Trumbull County Sheriff’s Office, but an attempt to ask Trumbull County Sheriff’s Chief Deputy Dale McDorman Wednesday for more information about the case was not successful.