Woman Arrested Twice In A Month, Accused Of Stealing From Elderly Couple

By: Kristen Weaver

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TULSA, Okla. - A woman is back in jail Friday for the second time in a month, once again accused of embezzlement.

This time, the victims are a couple in their 90's on hospice.

An affidavit said Ashley Brown owns Golden Care Home Health and had a five-month contract to take care of an elderly couple on Hospice in 2018.

It said after the contract was over, the couple's children found out money was missing from their parents' accounts.

Investigators said Brown stole more than $26,000 total from the couple and spent it on things like car payments, cell phone bills for her friends, furniture, and computers.

Brown was charged with two counts of elderly exploitation and identity fraud.

"It's upsetting, it really is," said Tashina Johnson.

Johnson worked for Brown at Golden Care and said many of her elderly clients were dealing with the same thing.

"Meds were not being paid, electricity was being cut off," she said.

Johnson's sister Melissa Purcell also worked at Golden Care.

Both Purcell and Johnson said Brown took advantage of employees, too. They said checks from Brown would bounce and said for two weeks they were forced to work without pay.

"It makes a lot of us so angry, especially for our clients who cannot speak for themselves," Purcell said.

We reported on Brown just a few weeks ago, when the attorney general's office charged her with embezzling more than $15,000 from employees at a different health care company where she was in charge of payroll, before she started Golden Care.

"We hope to see justice, especially for the clients," said Purcell.

Brown is in the Tulsa County jail Friday night for the new charges in Creek County. Her Tulsa County charges are still pending.

We tried calling Brown's business but haven't heard back and we couldn't find an attorney listed for her.

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Augusta County woman accused of embezzlement, financial exploitation

AUGUSTA COUNTY, Va. (WHSV) — An Augusta County woman is facing six charges connected to embezzlement and financial exploitation that allegedly netted her tens of thousands of dollars.

According to court records, Kelly Blackwell is charged with six counts of embezzlement, three counts of exploitation of a mentally incapacitated person, three counts of obtaining money by false pretenses, two counts of issuing bad checks, and two counts of credit card theft.

She was indicted by an Augusta County grand jury on May 28.

The Augusta County Sheriff's Office says she was arrested on all charges – they're each felonies – on May 31.

According to deputies, Blackwell was the treasurer for the Buffalo Gap Quarterback Club from January 2017 to December 2018. During that time, she allegedly pocketed $20,000 or more of unaccounted concession stand sales.

But that's only one aspect of the crimes she's alleged to have committed.

Deputies say she had been legally granted power of attorney for someone with a mental incapacitation (they did not specify). While in that role, she allegedly convinced the person she was representing to obtain a loan for over $70,000 against a home the person owned, took credit cards from the person, and used those cards to make fraudulent personal purchases.

Combined with alleged purchases made with the victim's checking account, she's accused of racking up a loss of over $90,000 for the person she was designated to represent.

Blackwell will next face court on June 10.

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