SOMBA K'E/YELLOWKNIFE - A Yellowknife woman who avoided police capture two years after being charged with defrauding her employer of $18,039 has apparently gone missing again.

Monica Audrey Casaway, 49, a former financial officer with the NWT Mine Training Society, successfully had her case moved to Edmonton on Dec. 13, 2010. As a condition of having the case transferred south, Casaway had to agree to plead guilty to one count of fraud and eight counts of knowingly using forged cheques between Aug. 17 and Nov. 12, 2007.

However, the case has been sent back to Yellowknife. A letter contained in Casaway's court file dated Feb. 2, 2011 from Alberta Justice regarding Casaway reads, "I am returning the original material sent by your office to be disposed of in Edmonton, Alberta, as the accused could not be contacted."

Another letter in the file dated Feb. 7, 2011 from the Public Prosecution Service of Canada's NWT office to the clerk of the territorial court indicates that the province of Alberta was "unable to locate Monica Casaway."

This is not the first time Casaway has gone missing on these charges. After being charged by the Yellowknife RCMP on April 1, 2008, a warrant was issued for her arrest on May 8, 2008, when she failed to show up for court.

Then, more than two years later on Aug. 8, 2010, Casaway turned herself in to the Yellowknife detachment.

She was released the same day on $400 bail.

Then on Sept. 14, 2010, her bail conditions were changed to allow her to leave the NWT so long as she reported to the Edmonton RCMP by Sept. 20 and on every

Monday thereafter between 9 a.m. and 5 p.m.

Crown prosecutor Alex Godfrey acknowledged Wednesday that the file is back in the Yellowknife office and it will return to the court for a plea. The next court date was not known by press time.

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