Police search for former day home owner
POSTED AT 6:05 PM Thursday, December 14
Calgary police are looking for a woman who ran a day home in Southwest Calgary.
CTV first learned about Rosalie Maronese this past summer when angry parents and former day home employees said Maronese didn’t pay them what they were owed.
There weren’t any criminal charged in that case, but now police want her for something else.
Calgary police have an arrest warrant for a separate incident.
Officers tells CTV that she responded to two ads placed by Calgarians, each seeking a pair of season tickets to the Calgary Flames.
Police say she took 8000 dollars from one, $4000 from the other and sent them to the Saddledome to pick up their tickets.
However, when the unsuspecting victims went to claim their tickets they were told the tickets didn’t exist and that Maronese did not own any season passes.
Now, she is wanted for two counts of fraud.
In January, an employment agency operated by Maronese called “That Recruitment Company” pleaded guilty to operating without a license and direct selling without a licence.
Police believe Maronese has left her home in Cougar Ridge where angry parents and ex-dayhome employees picketed this summer to recover money they said she owed them.
Gord Southam gave Maronese a $3600 deposit to hold two spots for his kids in a daycare she never in fact owned.
He says he sued her and won in small claims court, but never collected.
And though it’s not for her daycare dealings, Southam says he’s glad the police are planning to charge Maronese with something.
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Rose Maronese really left an impression in London, Ontario as well. As one of her victims here, let me tell you what she has been up to. She came here with this idea of a company called girls night out tours. The idea is great I think but it's who runs it that is the problem. She organizes a group of ladies to get picked up by a limo and it takes them out on a night on the town. There are several stops along the way with different vendors. After running these tours for 3 weeks, we soon realized who we were dealing with when the vendors were complaining about not getting paid. Myself included, acted as host to these tours and learned first hand what a scam artist she was by lying to me and others involved in this company. She has gone on to write several rubber cheques and makes it sound like it is the banks fault. I hated playing phone tag with her trying to get my money. And on top of that, she was looking for ads for this ad book called "The Little Redbook" which she said would be given to every lady who went on a tour plus run in the city newspaper in January. I even helped get her 2 ads from friends of mine. The London Police have a file number I found out based on this scam. Apparently there are other businesses who have paid for an ad and seen nothing. i came across this blog from someone close to Rose and immediately felt sick to my stomach. I can't believe that after reading all that she has done in her past that she continues to scam people. From the beginning she always said that her ex boyfriend was the cause for her problems and that he tried to ruion her in Calagary and he is making her look bad. She is such a liar and i have drawn together a group in London that have been "touched" by her to file a case in small claims court to get our money back. She messed with the wrong people. We will make sure she does not do business in our city anymore!