An indictment accuses a 75-year-old Hubbard woman who worked for an Austintown hotel of cheating the business out of tens of thousands of dollars.

Diane Coandle was booked into the Mahoning County Jail on Tuesday after a grand jury issued an indictment charging her for felony theft.

The alleged crimes took place between October 2022 and August 2024, when Coandle was an employee of the Fairfield Inn on North Canfield Niles Road.

A regional director for the hotel chain told police that while investigating a report of two rooms being rented out but not paid for.

The director, who reported finding the rooms filled with clutter and a relative of Coandle staying in one of them, told police that Coandle admitted making adjustments to rooms in her name and the names of others, sending bills to ficticious people.

Hotel officials alleged that Coandle was able to do so because she had access to the business’s computers, enabling her to make adjustments to billing and reservations.

According to the police report, it's estimated that the alleged crime cost the hotel between $50,000 and $70,000 in lost rents.

Coandle was arraigned Tuesday in Mahoning County Common Pleas Court.

Another hearing is scheduled in February.