Joanna Ridley and Matthew Ridley, Two Alberta Dental Clinic Employees Charged With $80K Steal

Medicine Hat, AB: The Medicine Hat, Alberta Police Service Major Crimes Section has charged Matthew and Joanna Ridley of Medicine Hat with Fraud Over $5000. The charges are in relation to a complaint received from the Crestwood Dental Clinic. Both of the individuals charged were employees at the clinic during the time of the fraud which took place in 2014 and amounted to losses in excess of $80,000. The funds were not recovered. Matthew Ridley, age 43, has been charged with three counts of Fraud Over $5000 and appeared in court on November 4, 2015. Joanna Ridley, age 41, has been charged with one count of Fraud Over $5000 and is due to appear in court on November 25, 2015. The victim of the fraud in this file was the Crestwood Dental Clinic business and not the individual patients of the clinic.

Matthew and Joanna Ridley will go to fraud trial in April

The trial for two former employees of a city dental clinic facing serious fraud charges has been set for early next year. The four-day trial for Matthew and Joanna Ridley was set Tuesday at the Medicine Hat Courthouse for April 10-13. Have questions or concerns about your practice? Want to lower your risk of being embezzled?

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