ARREST CLAIMS GRANNY ABUSE; WOMAN ACCUSED OF FRAUD.Byline: Greg Botonis Staff Writer Sheriff's detectives arrested a 40-year-old Lancaster woman after she allegedly took out a $60,000 loan on her 87-year-old invalid grandmother's home. Detectives said Audrey Coleman spent the $60,000 on a new car, clothing, furniture, stereos and televisions. She defaulted on the loan and the Apple Valley home later was sold after mortgage foreclosure foreclosure Legal proceeding by which a borrower's rights to a mortgaged property may be extinguished if the borrower fails to live up to the obligations agreed to in the loan contract. , officials said. Coleman also obtained gasoline, department store and bank cards using Olive Freeman's identity and transferred another Apple Valley property owned by Freeman into her own name and attempted to sell it, officials said. Other relatives discovered what Coleman was trying to do and reported her to authorities. ``The family actually had agreed to give (Coleman) custody because she lived in Lancaster and the rest of the family was in downtown L.A. and she seemed to be stable living with her husband and kids,'' said Detective Bob Campbell. ``They didn't know she would rip off their grandma.'' Coleman was being held in lieu of Instead of; in place of; in substitution of. It does not mean in addition to. $110,000 bail on suspicion of elder fiduciary abuse, fraudulent use of an access card, and obtaining money, labor, or property by false pretenses False representations of material past or present facts, known by the wrongdoer to be false, and made with the intent to defraud a victim into passing title in property to the wrongdoer. . Her arraignment A criminal proceeding at which the defendant is officially called before a court of competent jurisdiction, informed of the offense charged in the complaint, information, indictment, or other charging document, and asked to enter a plea of guilty, not guilty, or as otherwise permitted will be held today in Los Angeles Los Angeles (lôs ăn`jələs, lŏs, ăn`jəlēz'), city (1990 pop. 3,485,398), seat of Los Angeles co., S Calif.; inc. 1850. Municipal Court. Freeman weighed less than 70 pounds in 1996 when other family members visited her at Coleman's home, Campbell said. A grandson went to court to get conservatorship Conservatorship A circumstance in which the court declares an individual unable to take care of legal matters and appoints another individual, known as a conservator, to do so. Notes: This is sometimes referred to as "LPS Conservatorship. and put her in a hospital to regain weight. She died in November, Campbell said. Freeman had been in Coleman's care since suffering a stroke in 1994, officials said. The loan papers on her house were signed less than a month after Freeman moved into Coleman's home, Campbell said. Coleman transferred the second property into her own name in early 1996 by having Freeman sign the documents needed and then put the home and land on the market using a local real estate agent, officials said. Freeman's grandson found out about the sale and notified the other members of the family and the Sheriff's Department, Campbell said. The house already had gone into escrow escrow Instrument, such as a deed, money, or property, that constitutes evidence of obligations between two or more parties and is held by a third party. It is delivered by the third party only upon fulfillment of some condition. when officials notified the real estate agent and he pulled the sale. |
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