Couple charged for using deceased mother's debit card

Posted 9/30/09

A man who pleaded guilty in 2009 to keeping his dead mother in a freezer, so he could cash her social security checks, has been arrested again.

Roland J. Auslander, 75, of Cooks Falls, N.Y. …

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Couple charged for using deceased mother's debit card

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A man who pleaded guilty in 2009 to keeping his dead mother in a freezer, so he could cash her social security checks, has been arrested again.

Roland J. Auslander, 75, of Cooks Falls, N.Y. was arrested Tuesday (11/04/14) by the Sullivan County Sheriff’s Office on a charge of grand larceny. Auslander and his girlfriend, Wendy Kavanaugh, 47, of Roscoe, are accused of using her deceased mother’s debit card to withdraw money from the bank.

Deputies allege that Kavanuagh’s mother, Betty Cox, passed away at her Roscoe home around 6:00 PM on September 30, 2014 and within 30 minutes, Auslander and Kavanuagh were at an ATM withdrawing money from her account. Neither defendant was a co-signer on the account. The pair was captured on bank video surveillance.

Auslander was convicted in 2009 of keeping his deceased mother’s body in a freezer on his porch for nearly a year and a half while he cashed her social security checks. He spent 6 months in jail and is currently on probation in Delaware County for that case. Auslander was arraigned in the Town of Rockland court and sent to the Sullivan County Jail without bail. Kavanaugh’s bail was set at $2,500.00. Both defendants are due back in court on Thursday.

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