Former Employee Convicted Of Defrauding Her Employer Has Final Charges Dealt With

Monday’s docket of Moose Jaw Provincial Court had a woman who earlier plead guilty of defrauding her former employer of over $18,000 offering to plead guilty to further charges involving an unrelated offense.

Desiree Da Silva, who plead guilty in August to defrauding Keon Garden Centre of $18,554, was in Court offering to plead guilty to four Criminal Code of Canada offences.

The offences were one of Failure to Attend Court on July 18, 2022 plus three charges of Failing To Attend To Police For The Purposes Of Photographing and Fingerprinting.

Speaking to Judge Brian Hendrickson the accused said she would just like all of the charges against her all combined as she was prepared to plead guilty on all of them as she no longer resided in Moose Jaw.

“I am on an interim sentence and doing it at home on the weekends,” she told court when seeking all of the charges to be combined and dealt with.

Crown Prosecutor Rob Parker said since Da Silva was intending to plead guilty to the charges they could all be transferred to Provincial Court in Estevan to be dealt with.

“We could come to an agreement and wave them and have them dealt with in Estevan (Provincial Court),” Parker said.

Da Silva will appear in Estevan Provincial Court on November 14th to plead guilty to the four charges and have them dealt with there.

CLARIFICATION - We received an email stating our original story was untrue and the earlier version of this story was incorrect.

The story has been corrected to show the charges were unrelated to her previous conviction but a separate charge.

Asked what the charges were related to Ms Da Silva claimed it was a license plate infraction and failure to appear in court.

She failed to comment further.