The former president of a union that represents more than 600 Greater Dayton Regional Transit Authority drivers and employees pleaded guilty Tuesday to a charge of stealing from the union he once led.

Claude Huff changed his plea in U.S. District Court in Dayton after earlier pleading not guilty. In return for the plea change, Dwight Keller, the assistant U.S. attorney, and Richard Skelton, Huff’s attorney, agreed on a five-year sentence of probation, no incarceration and an amount of restitution that has not been calculated yet.

In the plea bargain agreement, however, restitution was capped at just over $110,000.

It’s the latest chapter in a saga that began with U.S. Department of Labor investigators raiding the Heid Avenue offices of the Amalgamated Transit Union Local 1385 in January 2011. Huff resigned the presidency of the local in November 2010, shortly before the national union was to conduct a hearing into allegations that Huff overpaid himself from union funds.

The local was thrown into temporary disarray, with the union’s national offices taking control of Local 1385.

Keller said Tuesday that Huff paid himself overtime that as a salaried employee he was not due.

“The classic point that we hope to make is no one is above the law,” Keller said.

Huff briefly responded to federal Judge Thomas Rose’s questions in court, but made no statement beyond that. Keller said Huff may have an opportunity to make a statement later.

“Obviously, a lot of the union members are eager to hear what has to say for himself,” Keller said.

Rose expects a probation department report before sentencing. He and the attorneys involved will have a phone conference Oct. 9.

Offered an opportunity to comment, Skelton said he wanted to speak with Huff first.