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Home Health Aide Convicted in NY Assisted Living Knifepoint Extortion Case

Rockland County District Attorney Thomas E. Walsh, II announced that Delores Anderson, 60, of the Bronx, New York, was convicted after a one-week jury trial of five counts of Grand Larceny in the Second Degree, class “C” felonies. The defendant was employed as a home healthcare live-in aid to a 78-year-old male residing in a senior assisted living complex in Pearl River, NY for approximately 8 months from December of 2022 through August of 2023. On May 5, 2023, the defendant while present in the victim’s home, stole property by inducing the victim to write her personal checks payable to herself. Anderson held a kitchen knife in her hand and threatened the victim, instilling fear in him, that if he did not comply and author these checks she would cause him a physical injury. At knifepoint he wrote and tendered her two checks payable to herself in the amount $4082.00. On July 25, 2023, the defendant while present in the victim’s home held the same kitchen knife to the victim’s stomach and demanded that he write 3 more additional checks payable to herself. Two checks were in the amount of $3603.00 and one for $3602.00. The defendant deposited all 5 checks and withdrew a total of $18,972.00 from her account completing the theft of this money from the 78-year-old victim.