ACWORTH, Ga. -- An Acworth man who played Santa Claus during a Shop with a Cop event will now spend 15 years on probation from stealing money from his company.

Ronald Joseph Papaleoni, 70, pleaded guilty Wednesday to five counts of theft. He admitted to taking thousands of dollars from the Lake Allatoona Preservation Authority (LAPA). Papaleoni's company, Premier Management, handled the authority's funds.

Prosecutors said that between 2007 and 2009, Papaleoni wrote multiple checks to himself from LAPA while working as its general manager. Cobb County Assistant District Attorney Jason Marbutt said he believes Papaleoni took $150,000, but the defense argued the total amount was much less.

ACWORTH, Ga. -- The owner and operator of a Cobb County speech therapy clinic has been sentenced to two years in prison for defrauding Georgia Medicaid.

Timothy Robinson pleaded guilty in April to one count of Medicaid fraud. He will also spend eight years on probation after getting out of prison.

Robinson owned Acworth-based Robinson Rehabilitation Services, which employed four speech therapists. Prosecutors said Robinson used the employees' provider numbers to bill Georgia Medicaid for services not provided, even after the therapists no longer worked for him. The scheme netted him more than half a million dollars.

As part of his sentence, Robinson must pay $582,484.71 in restitution to the Georgia Department of Community Health.

KENNESAW, Ga. -- Five Cobb County men have been indicted in two gang-related shootings in Kennesaw.

The defendants include Christopher Davis, 17, of Acworth; Alexander Market, 18, of Acworth; Brian McCary, 20, of Kennesaw; Timothy Reddie, 21, of Marietta; and Kristian Williams, 18, of Austell. They have been charged with aggravated assault, criminal property damage, firearm possession and violating Georgia's Street Gang Terrorism and Prevention Act.

All five men are believed to be involved in two shootings in Kennesaw's Legacy Park neighborhood. Kennesaw Police said the shootings occurred in November 2013 and January 2014, and no one was hurt in them.

Prosecutors said the defendants are members of the Piru Bloods gang, and that the shootings were a response to a young man's decision to leave the gang.