New fraud charges laid
Belleville Police Service have made an arrest and laid multiple charges following a fraud investigation. In May 2025, detectives from the Criminal Investigation Division launched an investigation after receiving a report that $18,000 had been withdrawn from a victim’s Canada Life RRSP account without her consent. As the investigation unfolded, detectives uncovered that between February and March 2023, the Canada Life RRSP account information had been changed to the victim’s daughter’s details, and four withdrawals totalling $16,830 were subsequently deposited into an account controlled by the daughter. Further investigation determined that the daughter also obtained approximately $54,000 from the same victim between 2019 and 2022 under the pretense of covering medic