Staff Report

ALACHUA, Fla. – Authorities have taken Lisa Jo Ann McKee, 48, into custody on charges related to siphoning funds from her mother’s bank account for personal use, resulting in a substantial debt of $91,000 owed to her mother’s nursing facility.

The case came to light after the Florida Department of Children and Families passed the information to the Alachua Police Department in November 2025. Concerns arose when the nursing home reported that payments from the victim’s bank account had ceased. By December 2025, the outstanding debt to the facility had reached $91,342.28. Attempts by the nursing home to reach McKee were unsuccessful.

An APD Detective revealed that McKee was named on a joint account with the victim, intended for depositing the victim’s disability checks. However, McKee allegedly diverted these funds for her own use, indulging in expenses such as hotel accommodations, pet services, subscriptions to streaming services, Amazon shopping, car insurance, and dining out. She purportedly transferred the victim’s funds to her personal account multiple times, misappropriating over $15,000 from the disability payments by early December 2025.

A nursing home spokesperson informed the detective that McKee had neither contacted nor visited the victim in years. Despite this, McKee allegedly continued to use the disability funds for her own benefit while deliberately neglecting her mother’s financial and medical obligations.

McKee faces charges of theft exceeding $10,000 from an elderly individual and the exploitation of an elderly person with losses also over $10,000. Although she had deferred prosecution agreements for two misdemeanors in the 1990s, she has not had any further criminal activity until now. Judge James Colaw set her bail at $125,000 in the arrest warrant.

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