Woman Probed For Taking Out $400K+ Mortgage On Friend's Home Without His Knowledge Arrested For Draining $100K+ From His Bank Accounts

In Anchorage, Alaska, the Anchorage Daily News reports:

• Local businesswoman Samantha DeLay-Wilson knew when to expect her longtime friend's disability check to hit his bank account, and, while he was in Central America, she slipped into his house, used his checks and drained more than $100,000 from it, according to charges filed Thursday.(1)

• Court records indicate DeLay-Wilson, 62, is also under investigation for taking out a mortgage worth more than $400,000 against a home her ex-boyfriend and friend of 12 years owns in San Francisco -- without him finding out about it for years.

For more, see Woman accused of stealing checks (FELONIES: Total was in the hundreds of thousands, records say).

(1) DeLay-Wilson was arrested and booked into jail Thursday on 16 felony counts of scheming to defraud, forgery and theft after she allegedly stole 14 checks from the friend, according to the story. The charges filed Thursday are not DeLay-Wilson's first run-in with the law. Reportedly, in 1998, she was accused of duping two Anchorage men, including one who lost his life savings, into lending her $500,000 that she would pay back with interest. She didn't. Facing up to 10 years in prison, DeLay-Wilson pleaded no contest in 1999 to a count of scheming to defraud and was sentenced to serve seven months, a police detective told the Anchorage Daily News.