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Updated: April 20, 2026 @ 2:04 pm
A Petaluma woman accused of taking an estimated $347,000 from her 84-year-old grandmother over the course of almost three years pleaded no contest to one count of felony elder abuse Wednesday, according to the San Mateo County District Attorney’s Office.
Kristen Capella, 38, also admitted to taking more than $100,000 from her grandmother when she appeared in court Wednesday, on condition that she serve one year in county jail and two years supervised probation, according to prosecutors.
Capella lived with her grandmother in San Bruno when she started electronically transferring thousands of dollars each month from her grandmother’s bank account to her own in April of 2014, according to prosecutors.
Capella’s grandmother had allegedly never given her permission to transfer the funds, never set up online banking and did not have a computer. A banking institution reported the suspicious transfers, which were determined to have continued until January of 2017, according to prosecutors.
Her defense attorney Mike Armstrong declined to comment on the case. Capella is out of custody after posting a $1 million bail bond and will next appear in court April 26 for sentencing, according to prosecutors.
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