Georgia police have arrested an 87-year-old woman and her 89-year-old husband after she allegedly stole more than $1 million from her deceased mother’s pension payments over the course of a decade, according to court documents.
Mary Ann Arceneaux and her husband Ernest, of Snellville, Georgia, were charged with identity theft fraud and theft by deception following an investigation by the Gwinnett County Police Department , according to a WSB-TV 2 .
According to the arrest warrant , which was issued on December 10, Arceneaux’s mother retired from her teaching job and moved to California in 1991, and died in June 2010. Georgia police allege that the Arceneauxs never informed the California State Teachers’ Retirement System that her mother died, and then allegedly faked documents to give the impression that she was still alive…