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| Charge dismissed with death of elderly victim |
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| Friday, 16 October 2009 | |
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By Evelyn Puffer Contributing writer A Cambridge woman is no longer facing a felony charge alleging financial exploitation of her 85-year-old father-in-law following his death the same day she made a first appearance in court. Kelly Rae Annis, 49, appeared before Judge P. Hunter Anderson Sept. 30 in response to a summons resulting from an investigation that began when Isanti County Family Services received a notice from a care facility that the victim was going to be discharged for lack of payment. The investigation revealed that Annis, who had admitted him to the facility in 2007, had failed to make application for Medical Assistance for him and that the man’s three sources of retirement income were not being used for his care. The care facility arranged to have those checks paid to the facility directly but it was found that $20,356 of the victim’s funds had also been deposited in an account at a local bank to which Annis had legal access. That money was now missing. According to the criminal complaint, Annis told investigators her husband, the victim’s son, was not involved in the thefts and that she had withdrawn the cash from the account herself using an ATM card. The charge was dismissed by the prosecuting attorney Oct. 9 based on the victim’s death Sept. 30. Dismissal of this case is similar to one in 2008 against a Cambridge man alleged to have stolen approximately $34,000 from his father to finance a blackjack gambling scheme of which the elder man said he was unaware. Charges were dismissed in that case when the alleged victim died the day before his son’s court hearing. |
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