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Man accused of stealing missing wife’s social security money

A Randolph County man is in custody, accused of taking social security money on behalf of his missing wife.

Court documents say 75-year-old Lawrence Warfel Jr. was spotted taking money out of his wife’s account.

Withdrawal records show he allegedly took more than $8,000 between September 2017 and July of this year, the period in which his wife was missing.

Warfel is in the Randolph County jail on a cash only bond of $25,000.

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