Niagara Falls Woman Charged Following Theft from St. Catharines Family Law Office

Wednesday, 23 October 2019 06:00

By Marcie Culbert

Charges have been laid, after $134,000 was reported stolen from a St. Catharines family law office.

The office contacted police, worried that it's trust fund and bank accounts may had been compromised between September 1, 2014 and June 27, 2019.

The NRP started investigating back in August. Officers police arrested a 34-year-old woman yesterday.

She has been charged with fraud over $5,000, uttering a forged document, falsification of books, laundering the proceeds of crime and criminal breach of trust.

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Niagara Falls Woman Charged Following Theft from St. Catharines Family Law Office

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