A 35-year-old Wheat Ridge woman, posing as a cancer patient, scammed more than $30,000 from good Samaritans, according to a grand-jury indictment.
Jennifer Risa Stover, who worked at a metro hospice, allegedly told co-workers she was battling cancer and undergoing “experimental treatments” as part of her ruse, according to a Jefferson County district attorney’s office news release.
Stover was indicted this month by a Jefferson County grand jury on theft of $20,000 or more and charitable fraud.
She surrendered to authorities at the Jefferson County jail Tuesday and was released after posting a $5,000 bond.
Stover, who has never had cancer and has never been medically treated for cancer, according to the indictment, allegedly stole more than $30,000 from 16 victims.
In 2008, Stover worked at the Collier Hospice in Wheat Ridge, where she allegedly told a co-worker she had a cyst and was undergoing experimental treatment. She missed a lot of work and blamed it on her “illness,” the DA’s office said.
Between January 2010 and April 2011, Stover fraudulently accepted money, according to the release.
Stover authorized a co-worker to solicit funds on her behalf to help with her “cancer-treatment and expenses,” according to the indictment.
Kieran Nicholson, The Denver Post
