Deputies accused of complex plan to bilk woman with dementia
NORTH HIGHLANDS, Calif. — Two California officers are being investigated on allegations of stealing money from a 75-year-old woman with dementia, listing her home for sale and putting her on a plane to the Philippines, where she had family.
Neighbours and friends on Friday described Rosalie Santallan Achiu as a frail military wife who loved to play cards and was fluent in several languages but seemed lost and afraid since her husband died more than a year ago.
Then she disappeared.
“The last time I seen her she was in the back of a cop car,” neighbour Daniel Wootton said.