Platte County prosecutors have charged a Kansas City police sergeant with stealing more than $75,000 from his 67-year-old mother while she was in a nursing home.

Mark Stinson, 43, was charged with misappropriating funds from a nursing home resident.  Zahnd said Stinson faces up to four years in prison if he is convicted.

According to court documents, Stinson was given the authority to control his mother’s finances after her husband died.

Instead, officials say wrote checks to himself and for personal expenses, and stopped paying his mother’s rent payments at the nursing home.  She was evicted in March 2011.

Investigators allege that Stinson accessed his mother’s money for personal expenses over a two-year period beginning in 2008.  Stinson allegedly wrote checks totaling $66,390 payable to himself or to cash and distributed more than $9,600 for personal expenses.

Stinson has been with the police department for 17 years, but a police spokesman says he has been suspended without pay.

A judge has ordered Stinson to have no contact with his mother the victim.