ELLSWORTH – An Exeter woman has been indicted on a theft charge for allegedly taking money from the Surry forester for whom she worked as a part-time bookkeeper.

The indictment against 40-year-old Cecelia G. White was handed down Tuesday by a Hancock County grand jury.

She is scheduled to be arraigned Feb. 25 in Hancock County Superior Court.

White was working as an independent bookkeeper for David Warren’s forestry business in 2002 when she started generating checks on her computer and cashing them to herself, said District Attorney Michael E. Povich.

She continued for 99 weeks, or almost two years, until Warren came home one day, opened a bank statement and found approximately $300,000 in unauthorized checks had been written to her benefit, Povich said.

Last November, Maine State Police charged her with embezzlement in Ellsworth District Court.

About the time White started working for Warren, she was being sued in Penobscot County Superior Court by the owner of the former Asian Palace restaurant in Bangor. The restaurateur accused White of stealing $107,000 from her in 2002. White was ordered by the court to repay the money.

White was also indicted earlier this week in connection with bouncing checks from the personal account into which she allegedly deposited the money stolen from Warren.