Caretaker to stand trial for murder after taking man off life support

• Linda Polk was arrested in April, accused of acquiring fraudulent energy of lawyer concerning the man and his spouse, based on the authorities of Macomb County.
• They indicated that Polk is accused of opening a bank card utilizing the person’s title after he died.
• She is accused of shopping for gadgets with the bank card, together with Christian Louboutin boots, based on prior witness.

A Clinton Township caretaker accused of killing an older Macomb Township man when she instructed a hospital physician to get him out of residing, will stand in the precise in Macomb County Circuit Courtroom.

Linda Polk, 53, is deliberate to be charged on September 22. She was tied to the Circuit Courtroom on August 29 after a preliminary investigation that included two days in August within the 41B District Courtroom in Clinton Township.

Polk is accused of 1 counting of every of the primary diploma homicide and embezzlement of a susceptible grownup and two counts every of falsification of a doc, identification theft and possession of a monetary transaction gadget. In a separate and non -related case, Polk can be confronted with allegations of identification theft, possession of a monetary transaction gadget and unlawful gross sales/use of a monetary transaction gadget, based on on-line judicial knowledge.

It’s held within the jail of the province on a bond of $ 1 million.

Polk was arrested in April, accused of acquiring a fraudulent energy of lawyer about retired lawyer Steven Zarnowitz, 78, and his spouse, Jill Margolick, and a certificates of their home. The couple moved to Macomb County in 2024, based on witness, after he had lived in Farmington Hills.

Zarnowitz suffered a blow on October 17 and was transferred to the McLaren Macomb Hospital in Mount Clemens. He died on October 19 and his physique was cremated, based on witness.

Polk’s lawyer, Steven Scharg, indicated in an e -mail on 2 September that “we don’t consider that there was ample doubtless purpose to bind to the variety of homicide within the first diploma.”

He indicated that Polk relied on an influence of lawyer that was introduced by a acknowledged notary who knew not one of the events. He stated there have been witnesses of the facility of lawyer and none of them had been known as. Zarnowitz’s spouse was one of many witnesses.

“In consequence, Mrs. Polk believed that she had the authority to make choices on his behalf,” Scharg stated.

Peter Lucido public prosecutor stated in a launch of August 29: “These are despicable and covert actions taken by this caretaker on one in all our susceptible grownup residents and the household. A lot of our outdated residents and their households belief the belief of the legislative circumstances in at present’s society. These actions is not going to be tolerated.”

Testimony indicated that Polk was the one one talked about as a detailed chin for Zarnowitz on paperwork and that she recognized herself as his niece with a physician, who testified that Polk made the choice to take Zarnowitz of residing.

Testimony indicated that Polk had been liable for Margolick in-home for a number of years after the older spouse had Covid-19 and have become bedridden and employed Zarnowitz nursing look after his spouse.

In accordance with testimony, Polk recognized himself because the niece of Zarnowitz and known as him as her father when he spoke with a bank card firm a few bank card in his title that was opened after his demise. In accordance with witness, she isn’t associated to Zarnowitz.

Authorities had been additionally knowledgeable by the Macomb County Register of Deeds, after a reputation investigation, that there was a cease declare for the Macomb Township deal with of the couple. The workplace decided that the deed was fraudulent.

A police detective of Clinton Township testified that after Zarnowitz died, Polk in his title opened bank cards, utilizing one in a number of places, together with to purchase a number of $ 1,600 Christian Louboutin boots.

The detective additionally testified that there was no contact order within the bank card fraud case and a violation of that order by Polk. He testified that Polk turned her final title of her maiden title into her married title and tried to get a job on the assisted residential location the place Margolick lived.

Please contact Christina Corridor: chall@freepress.com. Observe her on X: @Challreporter.

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