The former treasurer who drained the bank account of a B.C. little league will not be sent to prison.
On Wednesday, provincial court Judge Peter LaPrairie sentenced Terri Michael to serve two years less a day on a conditional sentence, which is a jail sentence that the offender is permitted to serve in the community under certain conditions.
Michael was charged last year with one count of theft over $5,000 and one count of fraud over $5,000. The sentence handed down Wednesday was for the theft charge. The fraud charge was stayed.
LaPrairie also ordered Michael to pay more than $160,000 in restitution, plus a $200 victim surcharge.
The penalties stem from Michael’s time working as treasurer for Coquitlam Little League, a six-year stretch that ended in August 2020, when the league reported her theft to the RCMP.
Investigators spent almost three years looking into the case, and Michael was charged in May 2023.
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