PHOENIX (AP) - Authorities say an Arizona couple has been sentenced to prison after stealing more than $600,000 from the man’s parents.
The state Attorney General’s Office says 49-year-old Michael Gonzales received a two-year prison term while his 50-year-old wife Kimberly was sentenced to 2 1/2 years in prison.
Prosecutors say Joseph and Marjorie Gonzales assigned power of attorney to their son and daughter-in-law in 2013.
By 2015, both Joseph and Marjorie were suffering from dementia and she died in January 2016.
In less than three years, the defendants allegedly spent all of the nearly $605,000 that Gonzales’ parents had saved for retirement.
A family member contacted the AG’s Office after learning the defendants had stopped paying for the health care facility where Joseph Gonzales was living and owed the facility almost $20,000.
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