Police arrest man accused of fraud after soccer team’s travel fund disappears

Selects Football Club U-11 team. (Supplied)

The man charged with fraud after money disappeared from an Edmonton youth soccer team’s tournament fund was arrested in Sherwood Park on Saturday.

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RCMP were tipped off about Randy Knodel’s location around 6:20 a.m.

They found him in a vehicle in a parking lot and arrested him on behalf of Edmonton police without incident, a spokesperson said.

Knodel was released on a promise to appear in court in Edmonton on March 17.

He faces 13 charges, including seven counts of fraud over $5,000.

A warrant for his arrest was issued last week.

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Although the nature of the alleged fraud is not known, a man with the same name is the coach of the Selects Football Club’s Tier 1 boys team in Edmonton.

The team fundraised approximately $50,000 to attend a soccer tournament in Las Vegas this month but days before the trip, the coach and about $40,000 went missing, according to the team’s manager.

With files from CTV News Edmonton’s Diego Romero