Friday, April 23, 2010

Upstate New York Man Charged With Using Forged Documents To Steal Dead Mom's Home & Rip Off His Six Siblings

In Washington County, New York, The Post Star reports:
  • A former Whitehall police dispatcher has been indicted on five criminal charges that accuse him of cheating his siblings out of a Whitehall home after their mother died. John Dalton, 50, [...] is accused of filing a will and property deed with forged signatures of his mother that allowed him to take ownership of her West Street home, worth an estimated $70,000.

  • State Police said Dalton’s six grown siblings were denied their rightful inheritance by the forgeries. Dalton faces felony counts of grand larceny and criminal possession of a forged instrument and misdemeanor counts of offering a false instrument for filing in the indictment handed up recently in Washington County Court.

For more, see Police: Man tried to steal home.