A former San Mateo County sheriff’s deputy was sentenced to five months in county jail after pleading no contest earlier this year to felony workers’ compensation fraud charges, prosecutors announced.

Jorden Faatiga, 35, entered a no contest plea in April to felony charges of workers’ compensation fraud and filing a false document and on Tuesday was sentenced to the county jail term starting in January, along with two years’ probation and paying restitution of more than $61,000 to the county, according to the San Mateo County District Attorney’s Office.

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Dan McMenamin is the managing editor at Bay City News, directing daily news coverage of the 12-county greater Bay Area. He has worked for BCN since 2008 and has been managing editor since 2014 after previously serving as BCN’s San Francisco bureau reporter. A UC Davis graduate, he came to BCN after working for a newspaper and nonprofit in the Davis area. He handles staffing, including coaching of our interns, day-to-day coverage decisions and management of the newswire.