She got 85 years for scamming elderly people. Now her husband may be on the run
Less than two weeks after Desiree Boltos was sentenced to 85 years in prison for scamming elderly people out of $1.6 million, her common-law husband — and alleged co-conspirator — has missed a court hearing in his case, suggesting he may be on the run.
Paul Hill, 40, has been free on bond awaiting trial on charges of theft of property, money laundering and theft of service.
On Dec. 3, just days after Boltos’ trial, prosecutors filed a motion asking State District Judge Robb Catalano to impose a new bond condition on Hill requiring that he wear a GPS monitor.
The judge approved the GPS condition that same day. A bond hearing was set for Monday morning so the judge could formally order Hill to be fitted with the device.
But Hill didn’t show up for the hearing. As a result, warrants have been issued for his arrest, court records show.
“All clients are notified by this office and their bondsman of court appearances. All clients are expected to appear as ordered by the court, and they are made aware of the consequences of not appearing,” Hill’s defense attorney, Paul Vincent, stated in an email Monday afternoon.
During the trial for Hill’s common-law wife, prosecutors Lori Varnell and Ty Stimpson alleged Boltos teamed with Hill, whom she often introduced as her brother, to scam elderly people out of money and vehicles — a con commonly referred to as a “sweetheart swindler.”
Boltos was convicted on Nov. 30 of six counts — five for theft and one count of exploiting an elderly person. A jury sentenced her from 10 years in prison on the exploiting an elderly person count to 85 years in prison on the first theft count.
The jury also imposed a $10,000 fine on each of the six counts.
In the motion filed on Dec. 3, Varnell had pointed out that Hill had previously run after learning he was wanted on warrants in the alleged scam. A year and 3 months would pass before he was apprehended, she wrote in the motion.
For at least part of that time, he had fled to Las Vegas, the motion states.
With his wife’s recent conviction and 85-year sentence, Varnell wrote that Hill “has reason to run again.”
“Because of the age and vulnerability of the victims as well as the nature of other elderly victims that may be affected by this defendant, the state is moving this court to impose the condition that this defendant wear a GPS monitor,” she wrote.
