Mann accused after he allegedly hidden the death of the army and stole his advantages

A man from Missouri is accused of locking his uncle – a veteran of the US Army with Temiplegie – into a garage and hiding his death for five years to steal his disability advantages and to use the money for exotic reptiles and “wasteful holidays”.

The 44 -year -old Brian Ditch is accused of having stolen at least 650,000 US dollars after he started receiving his uncle's state achievements when he was held responsible for his care in 2008.

Ditch was charged on Wednesday, May 7th and four cases of serious identity theft, two charges of the theft of government ownership and a count of a criminal in possession of a firearm.

While his uncle was under his care, Ditch supposedly kept him “in his garage and under his control”, often 24 hours after the other. His uncle was forced to “sit in his own urine and feces without eating or drinking,” said the US law firm, citing the indictment. During this time, Ditch received $ 9,559 per month from the US Ministry of Veteran Affairs in relation to the remuneration of disabilities.

Since 2008, Ditch's uncle has also earned 235,210 US dollars of social security insurance and social security benefits.

After his uncle died in 2019, Ditch supposedly said “relatives that he brought his uncle to a nursing home” when he hid the body to continue to steal money. In March, the authorities finally discovered the body of the uncle with three shotguns, which, according to the indictment, were excluded in a trash can box as a convicted criminal.

Ditch was previously convicted of several other crimes, including burglary and domestic battery, according to NBC partner -KDSK. His uncle, who was identified as Thomas Clubb, had dementia and was unable to control his intestine or use his hands and feet, the outcome reported.

Ditch's cousin Angie Crowder told KDSK that Clubb was paralyzed in a car accident in a car accident in a car accident in Germany. After Ditch announced that Clubb was in a nursing home, the relatives were taken care of and made contacts – before hearing from a detective Pro KDSK.

On March 21, Clubb's body was wrapped in a garbage bag, partly frozen and filled in a dash can in a dandruff.

According to the publication, Ditch used his uncle's performance payments to buy exotic reptiles, “Fund wasteful holidays” and “enrich themselves”.

“The office of the General Inspector of the Ministry of Veteran Matters is committed to being responsible, exploiting veterans or stealing their VA services,” said the responsible special agent Gregory Billingsley with the central field office of the VA OIG in a statement. “The programs and services of VA are set up in such a way that they rightly compensate for veterans, and the VA Oig will be brought to trial.”

Ditch, who appeared on Friday, May 9, before the US district court in St. Louis, noticed a spokesman for the US public prosecutor on Saturday, May 10th.

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The case was examined by the police department of Salem, the office of the Ministry of General of the Ministry of Veteran Affairs, the General Inspector of the Social Insurance and the Office for Alcohol, Tobacco, Tobacco, Firing Weapons and Explosives -with deputy US lawyer Derek Wiseman.

Wiseman said to KDSK that the case was “unique”.

“This is a hideous, reprehensible crime, a crime against a family member, a veteran. Someone without the use of arms and legs. It is a worrying and obvious lack of consideration of human life,” he said.

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