More On San Diego Man Accused Of Stealing His Grandmother's Home Equity

San Diego CityBeat published a more detailed story of Jay Ladran, the local man who has reportedly pleaded guilty to charges of elder abuse and fraud for forging his grandmother's signature in order to borrow against her her home equity. In discussing the problem of elderly ripoffs, generally, one local deputy district attorney commented that the problem lies partly in the difficulty of detecting the earliest symptoms of Alzheimer's Disease and other forms of dementia—symptoms so subtle we just refer to them as "getting old", complicated by the fact that the elderly sense their loss of faculties, which makes them less likely to report their victimhood. "We're fighting the crooks, but we're also fighting this wall of silence," deputy district attorney Paul Greenwood said.

For more, see Abusing the helpless (Pilar Ladran's grandson stole her house to pay for prostitutes).

For the initial report on this story, watch the NBC 7/39 TV report (by reporter Anne State), or to read NBC 7/39 online report, see Man Accused Of Stealing Grandma's Cash (Deputies Say Grandson Used Cash On Strippers, Prostitutes).