MAN GETS TWO YEARS IN DOWAGER'S BILKING.Byline: Mary Schubert Daily News Staff Writer A man who married an elderly widow and, with his son and daughter-in-law, was accused of bilking her out of her life savings, will serve a two-year prison term and will be forced to make financial restitution. Timothy Lawrence Watkins, 54, was scheduled to return to North Valley Superior Court on Dec. 2 for a restitution hearing. He and his son, Loren Timothy Watkins, 29, and his daughter-in-law, Christina Marie Watkins, 27, all pleaded no contest in the San Fernando San Fernando, city, Argentina San Fernando (săn fərnăn`dō), city (1991 pop. 144,761), Buenos Aires prov., E Argentina. It is a district administrative center in the Greater Buenos Aires area. courthouse to charges of elder financial abuse, said Sandi Gibbons Famous people named Gibbons include:
Judge Ronald Coen dismissed charges of conspiracy and grand theft against the three during the hearing Tuesday. The case had been set to go to trial before prosecutors and defense attorneys worked out the plea agreement. The defendants stood accused of stealing Val Verde resident Mary Cartwright's $250,000 nest egg Nest Egg A special sum of money saved or invested for one specific future purpose. Notes: Examples of the purposes for which nest eggs are usually intended include retirement, education, and even entertainment (vacations and cruises). of cash and property. The senile senile /se·nile/ (se´nil) pertaining to old age; manifesting senility. se·nile adj. 1. Relating to, characteristic of, or resulting from old age. 2. 80-year-old owned the Cartwright Motel with her late husband, A.C. The cottages were a decades-long fixture on Concorse Drive. Both men remain jailed at the North County Correctional Facility North County Correctional Facility (NCCF) is a Los Angeles County Jail, run by the Los Angeles County Sheriff's Department. Located approximately 40 miles northwest of downtown Los Angeles, it is one of four jails located within the Pitchess Detention Center (named after former . Loren Watkins was sentenced to a year in the Los Angeles County jail system but received credit for the time he has already served. He is scheduled to be released Dec. 6. His father, Timothy, will be sent to state prison. Coen also sentenced Loren Watkins and his wife, Christina, to five years of supervised probation each. Although Christina has been free on bail, avoiding jail time, she was sentenced to 750 hours of community service, a court clerk said. All three must make restitution in exchange for not being convicted on the charge of theft by a caretaker from an elder adult, the clerk said. Timothy Watkins married Mary Cartwright a few months after her 88-year-old husband, Alfred Charles ``A.C.'' Cartwright, died of cancer in March 1996. Deputy District Attorney Ardith Javan had argued that the elderly woman lacked the mental capacity to remarry remarry Verb [-ries, -rying, -ried] to marry again following a divorce or the death of one's previous spouse remarriage n Verb 1. , to manage her finances and to make health-care decisions for herself. |
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