Gary Cop Cops Plea, Dodges Hard Time After Admitting To Using Bogus POA To Rip Off Title To Elderly, Now-Deceased Alzheimer's Victim's Home

In Lake County, Indiana, the Post Tribune reports:

• Gary police Lt. Joshua Wiley, who admitted under oath he stole from an elderly neighbor with dementia and Alzheimer's disease and illegally took her home, was sentenced to three years in the Lake County Community Corrections Kimbrough Work Program. Wiley, 52, was ordered to repay $116,765 in restitution and has already paid $56,255.

• Lake Superior Court Judge Diane Ross Boswell on Tuesday accepted the plea agreement submitted Sept. 21 in which Wiley pleaded guilty to theft, [...] and exploitation of an endangered adult, [...]. The agreement called for an eight-year sentence, with five years to be suspended and served on probation and three years to be served in the Kimbrough work release program.

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• Wiley and his wife still occupy the home he took from Helen Chentnik [...] after Wiley obtained a fraudulent quit claim deed by claiming to have power of attorney from Chentnik. [...] Questioned by deputy prosecutor Robert Neumaier, Wiley admitted on the witness stand he didn't spend any of the $116,000 he stole for Chentnik's care at a nursing home, where she died in December 2006 at age 89.

For the story, see Cop sentenced to work release in neighbor scam.