Boone County sheriff’s investigators say a Sturgeon woman with a history of fraud has been defrauding family members and charged at least $29,000 on credit accounts opened in the name of an 80-year-old woman.
On Tuesday, detectives arrested Michele G. Brown, 40, of 18021 N. Old Highway 63 on suspicion of financial exploitation, fraudulent use of credit device, forgery and a probation and parole violation. They suspect Brown opened up numerous credit cards in the name of an elderly woman she is living with and charged at least $29,000 since May 2010, according to a Boone County Sheriff’s Department news release. That amount is expected to grow as the investigation continues and detectives determine the full extent of the alleged crime.
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Investigators were contacted yesterday by Brown’s family members and family members of the 80-year-old woman she lives with on Kinloch Court to report “financial misdeeds,” the news release said.
Brown remained in the Boone County Jail this morning with a bond yet to be set. She pleaded guilty to two counts of felony fraudulent use of a credit device in 2005 and was placed on five years of supervised probation. She also pleaded guilty to misdemeanor stealing in 2000.
