A Hallsville woman is charged with stealing money from her boyfriend’s elderly grandfather.
The situation came to light last week after the boyfriend discovered that Bobbi Jo Mills, 29, had pretended to be him in an email, asking the man’s 96-year-old grandfather to wire him $3,000. Court documents state that after the transfer, Mills went into her boyfriend’s bank account and altered the heading to the wire transfer, making it look like she’d received payment from a non-existent employer.
While talking with Mills’ boyfriend, officers learned that Mills had previously taken out payday loans, then used her boyfriend’s banking account for repayment. The man told officers that he’d told Mills to stop doing that, but she continued…