Former KemperSports Golf Course Employee Charged with Counts of Misusing Public Funds

A former KemperSports Golf Course employee has been arrested and charged with multiple counts of misusing public funds at a city-owned golf course, Carlsbad police confirmed Tuesday. 

Dawn Snow, 52, of Murrieta, was charged with multiple counts of burglary, grand theft and embezzlement amounting to more than $595,000 for actions she took while working as KemperSports' controller at the city-owned golf course The Crossings. 

“We take any possible misuse of public funds by a city contractor very seriously,” said Interim City Manager Kathy Dodson. “The Police Department has conducted a thorough investigation, and now the case has been turned over to the district attorney’s office for prosecution, which we will fully support.”

During her employment, Snow handled all golf course operations and management through a competitively bid contract with the city, going back to the course’s opening. She left KemperSports in August.

Two months after Snow left her position, managers at KemperSports found evidence of a possible misuse of public funds involving a former controller’s credit card and opened an investigation. When they told the City of Carlsbad, they began their own investigation. The results of the investigation have been given to the District Attorney’s office.

KemperSports will reimburse the city for the money it lost.

Snow has been booked into Vista Detention Facility and will be arraigned at 1:30 p.m. Wednesday at Vista Courthouse.
 

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