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Accused of fraud and forgery, a former senior Mountie, who allegedly stole more than $18,000 from the Saskatchewan RCMP unit which employed her, didn’t attend court personally for this week’s first appearance on her four charges.

Appearing on behalf of Cheryl Ann Jarvis, who now resides in Kamloops, B.C., lawyer Roch Dupont simply adjourned the matters to June 20 in Regina provincial court.

Jarvis, now 50, was the sergeant in charge of the RCMP F Division’s Drugs and Organized Crime Awareness Service from May 2008 until October 2010 — within the time frame when the offences are alleged to have occurred.

According to court documents, Jarvis faces four charges: theft in excess of $5,000 from Drug Awareness Services, fraud in excess of $5,000, forgery and uttering a forged document. The forgery charges allege that Jarvis, in November 2008, knowingly made a false document “by adding a false expense item to an American-Express Corporate Card Statement of Account” and using that document as if it were genuine.

RCMP announced in a news release issued Monday that Jarvis was charged following an investigation sparked in February 2013 by information about “accounting irregularities” within the Drug Awareness Service.

“An investigation determined there was a misappropriation of more than $18,000 in funds from the Government of Canada into personal bank accounts,” according to the release.

An RCMP spokesperson confirmed the money at issue came from RCMP accounts, and that the alleged offences occurred while Jarvis led the Drugs and Organized Crime Awareness Service.

Jarvis retired from the force in 2015.