Woman gets prison for stealing $160,000 from elderly Kent victim

A Cuyahoga Falls woman will spend at least four years in prison and must repay the elderly woman from whom she stole $160,000.

Judge Laurie J. Pittman sentenced 40-year-old Elizabeth Marie Cunningham on Jan. 20 in Portage County Common Pleas Court to four to six years in prison and ordered that she pay $162,564.58 to the Kent victim.

Now 71 years old, the Kent woman reported to police that in December 2024 she discovered someone had withdrawn $80,000 from a retirement account. She also found multiple credit card accounts about which she was unaware, according to a Kent police report…

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