A South Carolina caregiver has been arrested more than two years after a Maryland woman says she drove hundreds of miles to check on her father, learned he had died days earlier and discovered his house was now in the caregiver’s name.
Sarah Weaver Smalls, 58, was arrested Sept. 28 by Conway police on charges of exploitation of a vulnerable adult, breach of trust with fraudulent intent and perjury.
The arrest marks a major turn in a case that Nora Rowland has been trying to unravel since June 2024. Rowland says her father, Robert Rowland, had Parkinson’s disease and a traumatic brain injury and had been receiving help with daily activities before Smalls entered his life as a caregiver…