Florida man buries mother in backyard, keeps collecting her retirement money
JACKSONVILLE, Fla., Nov. 1 (UPI) -- A Jacksonville, Fla., man is headed to jail for burying his mother in her backyard and then collected her retirement and pension benefits for a year.
Brian Adams pleaded guilty to theft of government property and aggravated identity charges Tuesday in federal court for stealing and spending the money after he did not notify authorities his mother had died.
During a missing persons investigation for Adams' 80-year-old mother in June 2015, the Clay County Sheriff's Office discovered the scheme Adams had been running after receiving her social security and pension payments.
Using his mother's name, Adams impersonated her on banking documents and wrote checks to transfer money between her accounts, spending the money on himself and eventually collecting $35,345.
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