Attorney General Steve Marshall announced arrests in a case involving the theft of $9 million from a resident of an Etowah County assisted living facility. Lisa Daugherty, 54, of Attalla, was arrested on a warrant by agents of the Attorney General’s Medicaid Fraud Control Unit, accompanied by officials from the Boaz Police Department, Etowah County Sheriff’s Department and the Etowah County District Attorney’s Office, charging her with financial exploitation of a former resident of Oak Landing Assisted Living. Daugherty was employed as a care technician, and her elderly victim was a resident of the facility. Daugherty is charged with two counts of first-degree financial exploitation of the elderly: one count for $8 million in currency, and one for $1 million in real estate. Daugherty is being held in the Etowah County Jail on a $1 million cash bond. Two other women were arrested on warrants, each for first-degree receiving stolen property, in the amount of $600,000. Brooke Crawford, 35, of Atalla, is Daugherty’s daughter, and Jerenita Johnson, 52, of Boaz, is Daugherty’s former partner. Each are being held on a $5,000 bond.
A warrant is merely an accusation. Defendants are presumed innocent unless and until proven guilty.
