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Employee charged with defrauding long-term care home, residents: Sask. RCMP

A Saskatchewan RCMP release said Meadow Lake RCMP received a report of fraud at a local long-term care home in December 2018. . File / Global News

A long-term care home employee in Saskatchewan has been accused of defrauding 11 residents as well as the long-term care home where she worked.

A Saskatchewan RCMP release said Meadow Lake RCMP received a report of fraud at a local long-term care home in December 2018.

Since then police officers have collected evidence and interviewed many witnesses.

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According to RCMP, the investigation determined the employee defrauded the 11 residents and long-term care home between 2016 and 2018.

Guelda Wood, 62 of Rapid View, Sask. has been charged with fraud over $5,000, fraud under $5,000, forgery, and one count of using, trafficking or possession of a forged document.

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Wood is scheduled to appear in Meadow Lake Provincial Court on April 18.

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