MEMPHIS, Tenn. — A former Memphis Fire Department chief was sentenced to eight years probation after pleading guilty to forging estate documents.
According to the District Attorney’s Office, Sandra Evette Richards, 49, must pay $23, 986.59 to former state Representative Ulysses Jones’s children for court costs.
The whole thing started after Jones’s death back in 2010.
Richards presented to the courts what she said was the 59-year-old’s will.
She said they were engaged to be married and that she helped him write the will, which left the majority of his $100,000 estate to her.
His family however quickly called her out saying Jones had never made a will nor was he engaged.
In fact, he was still living with his children’s mother, and they planned to get remarried.
When the case went before a Probate Court Judge, two forensic experts testified the documents were indeed forged.
The estate was awarded to his children.
Jones died in November 2010 after battling pneumonia.
He represented District 98 in Memphis and was even a Battalion Chief with the Memphis Fire Department.