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ALACHUA, Fla. – Lisa Jo Ann McKee, aged 48, found herself under arrest yesterday following allegations that she misappropriated funds from her mother’s bank account for personal use, leaving her mother facing a staggering $91,000 debt to her nursing home.
The investigation began when the Florida Department of Children and Families alerted the Alachua Police Department in November 2025. This referral came after the nursing home reported an alarming halt in payments from the victim’s bank account. By December 2025, the victim’s unpaid balance with the nursing home had soared to $91,342.28. Despite efforts to reach McKee, the facility was unable to establish contact.
An Alachua Police Department detective revealed that McKee holds a joint account with her mother, intended for the deposit of her mother’s monthly disability checks. However, the detective uncovered that McKee diverted these funds for personal expenditures, including hotel bills, pet care, subscriptions to streaming services, purchases on Amazon, car insurance, and dining out. It was also discovered that McKee frequently transferred all the funds from the joint account into her own, allegedly siphoning off over $15,000 from her mother’s disability payments for her own use by early December 2025.
A nursing home representative reported to the detective that McKee has not been in contact or visited her mother “in years.” Despite this, McKee is accused of continuing to exploit her mother’s disability payments for her own expenses, while “willfully and knowingly” neglecting to fulfill her mother’s financial obligations to the nursing home.
McKee has been charged with theft of over $10,000 from a person over the age of 65 and exploitation of an elderly person with a loss of over $10,000. She completed deferred prosecution agreements on two misdemeanor cases in the 1990s but has had no criminal history since then. Judge James Colaw set bail at $125,000 in the arrest warrant.
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