Carl Junction man to repay parents $40,000

A Carl Junction man pleaded guilty Monday to financial exploitation of his elderly parents and received a suspended imposition of sentence and placement on probation with court-ordered restitution of $40,000.

Lawrence K. Larimore, 52, pleaded guilty in Jasper County Circuit Court to a single count of financial exploitation of the elderly in a plea deal calling for the suspended sentence and restitution. Circuit Judge Gayle Crane accepted the plea agreement and placed Larimore on supervised probation for five years.

According to a probable-cause affidavit, the defendant was asked by his parents to assist them in paying their bills and buying their groceries and was given access to their bank account through the use of a debit card and the writing of checks. The court document states that his parents intended that he be a co-signer for the account, but he took the liberty of making himself a co-owner without their knowledge and put himself on his father's credit card.

Between June 2015 and April 2016, the defendant drained his parents' money market account of $40,000 and ran up another $19,000 in charges on the credit card, according to the affidavit.

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Carl Junction man to repay parents $40,000