by: Bobbie Pottorff
JOPLIN, Mo. — A Joplin woman accused of stealing large sums of money from an elderly, blind woman will go to trial.
Tammy Tripp, 51, waived her preliminary hearing on Thursday and was bound over for trial.
Prosecutors charged Tripp with financial exploitation of an elderly disabled person back in June.
Tripp is accused of stealing nearly $717,000 from the elderly woman’s bank and retirement accounts.
An investigator for the Missouri Department of Health and Senior Services says once the elderly woman’s family learned about the possible fraud, Tripp and her husband removed the woman from an assisted living facility and hid her at a camper park in Oklahoma.
Authorities say Tripp also allowed her daughter to access the elderly woman’s bank account and get $93,000 to purchase a house.
Tripp is still sitting in the Jasper County Jail on a $50,000 dollar cash-only bond.
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Joplin woman accused of exploiting elderly, blind woman heads to trial
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