A former treasurer for Local B-395, the International Alliance of Theatrical Stage Employees in Worcester, was sentenced in federal court Friday to one year of probation and ordered to pay back part of the approximately $37,000 he stole from the union.

Ivar Carlson embezzled the money from 2007 to 2016 from the union by writing checks to cash from the union’s bank account and then using the cash for himself, the Department of Justice said in a press release.

U.S. District Court Judge Timothy Hillman sentenced Carlson to one year of probation and to pay $9,786.20 in restitution and forfeiture in the amount of $16,151.20.

According to Deadline, the thefts were discovered by the union, which then placed the local into trusteeship in November 2016. It has since merged with stagehands Local 96.

Local B-395 represented workers at the DCU Center in Worcester and at its height had only 32 members, Deadline reported.