A 92-Year-Old Woman Still Lived in Her Home. Officials Say Someone Stole the Deed Anyway

A 92-year-old Brooklyn woman was still living in the home she had owned for decades when officials say forged paperwork was used to take the deed.

New York Attorney General Letitia James announced the arrest and indictment of 58-year-old Mark Salkey of Queens, accusing him of stealing Althea Garrick’s East Flatbush home while she was receiving dementia care.

According to the attorney general’s office, Garrick and her then-husband, Reginald Kelly, bought the home in 1976. Garrick became the sole owner after their divorce in 1998, but officials say documents later transferred the property to Salkey’s company without her consent…

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