Pacifica man gets 6 months in jail for embezzling from nursing home residents
By Michael Manekin
San Mateo County Times
02/02/2009
REDWOOD CITY — A former caregiver at a Menlo Park nursing home accused of stealing the checkbooks of two elderly residents in an embezzling scheme was sentenced Monday in San Mateo County Superior Court to six months in jail.
Ramil Panlaqui, 42, of Pacifica, pleaded no contest in October to three felony counts of financial elder abuse in a deal with prosecutors that limited his punishment to two years in prison. He had been facing up to 10 years in prison on multiple felony counts, including residential burglary and elder abuse.
Panlaqui, who worked at Atherton Healthcare, allegedly stole the checkbooks of an 88-year-old resident and a 75-year-old resident and then wrote multiple checks from one victim's account to the other's before withdrawing the transferred money from the second account. He stole about $4,000 in all, prosecutors said.
After Panlaqui's arrest, authorities found a completed check from a third victim, according to prosecutors.
In addition to his six-month prison sentence, Panlaqui was ordered by a Superior Court judge to serve three years' probation. He must also reimburse Wells Fargo and the Bank of America to replace the money stolen from the checking accounts.
Panlaqui, who has been allowed to live out of custody on his own recognizance, must surrender himself to authorities on April 4 to serve his jail sentence.
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