2 men charged with fraud after $66K allegedly stolen from Calgary non-profit

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· Posted: Jun 25, 2025 7:18 PM EDT | Last Updated: 9 hours ago

Calgary constabulary accidental they person charged 2 men with fraud aft much than $66,000 was allegedly embezzled from a section assemblage organization.

Nathan Mizera, 41, and Joshua Bredo, 40, person been charged with 1 number each of fraud implicit $5,000.

In 2022, 2 men approached the long-time directors of the Bowness Ratepayers Scout and Guide Hall Association, police said successful a release.

The hall, which is located astatine 8551 Bowness Rd. N.W., provides a space for backstage and public lawsuit bookings.

The men allegedly promised to rebrand the hallway and connection it arsenic a assemblage spot to stitchery and clasp events, constabulary said.

"Eager to walk connected the day-to-day operations and excited astir the imaginable of expanding the assemblage hallway for their community, the 2 directors agreed," the merchandise reads. 

"The 2 men past assumed the positions of managing the regular operations, and 1 of the men appointed himself arsenic the wide manager without predetermination oregon consent from the board."

The 2 men rebranded the hallway arsenic BowCommons, holding events under the sanction Discover Bowness, constabulary said.

Two years later, committee members "became acrophobic with the attraction and deterioration of the hallway and the transparency of fiscal documents, which led to the find of a important magnitude of missing funds," constabulary said. Board members past contacted police.

Investigators said they believed that much than $66,000 was embezzled betwixt 2022 and 2024.

"The 2 men embezzled much than $66,000 by hosting events utilizing enactment funds without paying attributed fees, falsifying documents to get fiscal power and creating mendacious receipts for services ne'er rendered, which were past sent to fabricated email addresses and deposited into their idiosyncratic slope accounts," the merchandise reads.

Two men were arrested and charged successful narration to the missing funds connected Tuesday.

Bredo, who is primitively from Prince George, B.C., has a convulsive transgression past.

In August 2011, helium fatally attacked Daniel Levesque, 20, with a hammer astatine the killer's Victoria apartment. Bredo was primitively charged with execution but pleaded blameworthy to manslaughter successful 2017.

The justice handed the slayer a nine-year condemnation but helium received 7 years' recognition for the clip he'd spent successful custody. He was released from situation successful 2018.

Mizera and Bredo volition look successful tribunal connected Aug. 6.