With afternoon temperatures climbing to over 90 degrees, concerned residents called Lincoln County Sheriff’s Deputies to check on an elderly woman living in a small cabin at the Pine Crest Motor Court in Edgecomb.
When deputies arrived, they found an 85-year-old Los Angeles woman, left alone for several days in the sweltering cabin with almost no food. Her name has not been released, but authorities said she was brought to Miles Memorial Hospital and is in good condition.
“She was actually in pretty good condition,” said LCSO Det. Robert McFetridge. “She could sit up; she was talking.”
On July 12, the LCSO arrested three people for felony endangering the welfare of a dependent person.
A pair of 41-year-old twins, Barbara and Nicholas Davis, and a 20-year-old man named Jonathon Stevens they called their godson, are believed to have taken the elderly woman from LA in 2009 and drove her around the country, according to an LCSO press release. She told deputies they had been in Maine for over a year, moving from place to place.
The woman has no known friends or family. The suspects allegedly kept her isolated from contact with other people and controlled all of her finances, according to the press release.
The suspects were released on $10,000 unsecured bail. They are scheduled to appear in court Sept. 29.
Anyone with information should contact Det. Robert McFetridge with the LCSO at 882-7332.
