Former Nevada guardian AprilParks was sentenced to 16-40 years, the maximum recommended. Her business partner Mark Simmons and her husband Gary Taylor were also given lesser sentences for their ...
Former Nevada guardian AprilParks waits for her sentencing at the Regional Justice Center in Las Vegas Friday, Jan. 4, 2019, after pleading guilty to exploitation, theft and perjury charges November.
Parks, Simmons, and Taylor have been in custody since March 2017. Both cases were jointly investigated by the Office of the Nevada Attorney General and the Las Vegas Metropolitan Police Department. Prosecutors from the Office of the Nevada Attorney General and Clark County District Attorney's Office prosecuted this case.
Clark County District Court Judge Tierra Jones also ordered AprilParks, 53, to serve 16 to 40 years in Nevada state prison and to pay almost $560,000 in restitution to victims, according to a statement from state and local prosecutors. ... Parks' former office manager, Mark Simmons, was sentenced to seven to 18 years in prison, and her ...
Four people have pleaded guilty in Nevada's largest elder exploitation case. Contact 13 has been investigating the case involving AprilParks and others for years, bringing the situation to light ...
A whole segment could be dedicated to what AprilParks did, but in essence, between 2011-2017 Ms. Parks took advantage of guardianship laws that were outdated and favored professional guardians ...
Victims of former Nevada guardian AprilParks packed a Las Vegas courtroom for much of Friday morning. Relatives of those who died under her watch and of those too ill or weak to attend the proceeding spoke of the torment she put them through and observed as District Judge Tierra Jones sent the 53-year-old to prison for 16 to 40 years.
UPDATE APRIL 5: April Lynn Parks was a private, professional guardian appointed by Clark County Family Court to protect hundreds of vulnerable people. Parks admitted to Contact 13's Darcy Spears ...
As a guardian, AprilParks once controlled hundreds of Southern Nevada's most vulnerable people. As an inmate, she pleaded guilty Monday, Nov. 5, to exploitation, theft and perjury charges. The hearing came more than a year after she was first indicted for swindling many of the elderly and infirm in her care.
April Parks's 212 felony charges: 1 count of racketeering. 42 counts of theft. 37 counts of exploitation of an older person or vulnerable person. 74 counts offering a false instrument for filing ...