A Miami-Dade funeral dwelling employee discovered herself behind bars after the State Legal professional’s workplace mentioned she befriended a shopper after his spouse’s dying and gained entry to each the paperwork on his dwelling and his monetary affairs.
Miami-Dade Police and the SAO’s Aged Exploitation Job Drive arrested 56-year-old Maribel Torres on Tuesday and charged her with three counts, together with grand theft and an organized scheme to defraud.
In keeping with a information launch, Torres was an worker at Maspons Funeral Dwelling and met the sufferer in August 2019 shortly after the dying of his spouse. Torres allegedly informed the sufferer she and her son had been relations and he or she was in a position to get hold of his monetary paperwork in addition to info concerning the standing of his dwelling of 40 years.
Maribel Torres (Miami-Dade Police Division)
Torres and her grownup son additionally allegedly had the sufferer signal quite a few paperwork to be added as house owners of the house in addition to having him signing an influence of lawyer, offering her with entry to his authorized and monetary issues.
“Using a spouse’s dying and an apparent impairment as instruments to steal an aged man’s dwelling would appear to be a brand new low in alleged felony conduct,” famous State Legal professional Katherine Fernandez Rundle. “Conditions like this expose the ugly face of aged exploitation which targets the frailest members of our group.”
The sufferer’s nephew, who lived in Palm Seashore County, visited the sufferer and found Torres and her son residing on the dwelling lately. When the sufferer recognized Torres and her son because the nephew’s aunt and cousin from Cuba, the nephew notified the authorities.
Torres and her son aren’t associated to the sufferer and his household. Torres is scheduled to look in courtroom April seventh.