A 60-year-old man arrested in August after it was revealed he was living on his mother’s Social Security and had stiffed her assisted living facility is back in trouble again.
Brian Scott Schaffer was booked Tuesday at the Lake County Jail on a warrant charging him with failure to appear on a charge of violating his pre-trial release. He had been arrested on that charge when he showed up Sept. 9 to see his mother at the Springs of Lady Lake Assisted Living Facility. When staff at the assisted living facility spotted Schaffer, they called police. When police arrived and reminded Schaffer about a No Victim Contact Order, Schaffer replied, “Yea, but I don’t recall signing anything.”
He had originally been barred from seeing his mother following his arrest in August on a felony charge of exploitation of the elderly. He was arrested after it was discovered his mother was facing eviction from the Springs of Lady Lake. An investigation had been launched after an anonymous tip to the Department of Children and Families in which the tipster said Schaffer was living on his mother’s money at her home in Grand Island, according to an arrest affidavit from the Lady Lake Police Department.
Armed with his mother’s power of attorney, Schaffer had taken ownership of his mother’s home.
In an interview with a DCF agent and Lady Lake police detective, Schaffer admitted he was living on his mother’s Social Security check and her late husband’s pension. He said he couldn’t afford to pay her nursing home bills.