Stephanie Nichols knew something wasn't right. Her stepfather had died Feb. 17, but more than $10,000 worth of charges had been made on his debit card since then. She went through the charges, and more than $100 spent on a tattoo from a local tattoo parlor jumped out at her -- not to mention the $1,439 paid for an AR-15 rifle from a Vancouver pawn shop.
Nichols alerted police. She also told officers that she suspected her stepfather's grandson, whom she had noticed was recently sporting a large U.S. Marine Corps Eagle globe and anchor tattoo on his shoulder.
"That's when she realized it was him," said Portland Detective Harry Trimpler, an elder abuse investigator in the bureau's Family Services Division.
The grandson, Bradley J. Brown, 23, was arrested this week and arraigned on 56 allegations, including first-degree aggravated theft, fraudulent use of a credit card and multiple counts of identity theft.
Investigators say Brown made up to 70 unauthorized charges totaling $10,374 on his grandfather's debit card, using his personal identification number, between Feb. 8 and March 1. Purchases were made on the debit card almost every day during that period, court records show.
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ReplyDeleteHAHAHA To bad i actually only plead guilty to a charge of buying him a bannana cream pie from shari's cafe! I found the original will from 2000 that was submitted to the court stating he had gifted me 10,000. He was the one on the 6th of febuary that gave me authorization on his card and the pin number (0590). They just could not believe this. Mrs nichols on the othere hand has since recieved well over 500,000. Includin the house wich is now an income property. This all started when mrs nichols removed his and my grandmother wedding ring and claimed they were gone so "gramps" got extremely mad and that is when he gave the card and the pin number right in his room at the healthcare village.
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