Manitoba

Woman, 36, charged after $30,000 stolen from Carberry Curling Club: Manitoba RCMP

A 36-year-old woman has been charged after she allegedly stole thousands of dollars from her southwestern Manitoba town’s curling club and paid it back using public funds, RCMP say.

Woman accused of using rural municipality funds to pay back curling club, RCMP say

A group of curling stones are pictured.
A woman is accused of stealing about $30,000 from a curling club while she was the volunteer treasurer. (Bongarts/Getty Images)

A 36-year-old woman is accused of stealing thousands of dollars from her southwestern Manitoba town's curling club and using public funds to pay it back, RCMP say.

RCMP received a report on Dec. 7 that a significant amount of money had been stolen from the Carberry Curling Club over the previous year, and the club's former treasurer was suspected.

The woman is accused of stealing about $30,000 from the curling club while she was in the volunteer treasurer position, RCMP said in a news release on Thursday.

Police believe she left the club's treasurer role and used money from the rural municipality of North Cypress-Langford, where she was chief administrative officer at the time, to pay it back.

She is charged with theft over $5,000 and has been released from custody.

She's scheduled to appear in a Brandon court in early April.