A Queens man has been charged with deed theft after the New York Attorney General accused him of forging paperwork to steal the home of a woman with dementia.
Mark Salkey, 58, has also been accused of stealing more than $160,000 from Althea Garrick and her ex-husband, Reginald Kelly. Kelly said he is heartbroken and frustrated by the ordeal and had to move into Garrick’s room to help care for her.
Investigators said he forged the paperwork to take over the deed in 2022 and 2024, then began renting it out to strangers while Garrick still lived in one of the bedrooms. Salkey allegedly charged the tenants tens of thousands of dollars…