A Texas woman has been sentenced to almost four years in prison for stealing money from her uncle in Wichita.
The Sedgwick County District Attorney’s Office said a sentence of 47 months was given to 43-year-old Stephanie Bracks of Dallas, Texas. She was found guilty by a jury in August of felony mistreatment of an elder person and felony theft. Bracks was also ordered to pay $52,661.60 in restitution.
The case began in 2020 when a woman contacted Wichita Police because she thought Bracks was stealing money from her 89 year old uncle. A second niece noticed that the uncle’s drivers license, social security card and several checkbooks were missing from his Wichita home. A police investigation found unauthorized checks written to Bracks and her boyfriend Anthony Patterson.
At the time of Brack’s conviction, Patterson was ordered by the judge to be arrested because he was not paying restitution in the case and violated his probation. After serving a jail sanction, Patterson is now back on probation and paying his restitution. Patterson had earlier pleaded guilty to theft and was sentenced to probation.
