exploitation of a vulnerable adult

A woman ordered to pay $532,890.80 in restitution for the misappropriation of her father-in-law’s property has lost her appeal before the Wyoming Supreme Court.

Four other charges will be dismissed at Trae Smith's sentencing, according to the plea agreement.

Roy Davis fled Wyoming after his plea agreement in April 2018 and was apprehended in California.

Judge Catherine Rogers ordered the 75-year-old Lutz to pay $44,578.84 in restitution and to get and keep a job.

Few told the detective that the victim had written him a number of checks, but they were all for his business.

A former Cheyenne caregiver who stole over $21,000 from a man with dementia has pleaded guilty to exploitation of a vulnerable adult.

The plea agreement, outlined in court by defense attorney Kerri Johnson, specifies that the remaining charges would be dismissed in exchange for Davis's guilty pleas.

The elderly victim told police Tamara Voelker befriended him several years earlier and then became his “caregiver” after his wife died.

Addicts, especially those who use pain-killing narcotics, aren't able to hold jobs and they look for money and find vulnerable adults are easy marks.

Sending Donna Anderson to prison would punish her, but it also would render her unable to work to make restitution.