LAS VEGAS (FOX5) -- It's the final chapter in a case of fraud FOX5 Investigates first told you about in January of 2022. Tuesday, a judge sentenced a Las Vegas Valley woman to a much stiffer penalty than typical for exploiting her elderly neighbor and taking everything he owned.

"We have a situation here where you signed legal documents with a power of attorney you never should have had in the first place, where you ran up credit cards, where you stole identity, where your sold a trailer, or mobile home, knowing that it was not yours to sell and planning on keeping the money, so this is a long process of weeks or months," said Clark County District Court Judge Crystal Eller in addressing Ursula "Bobbi" Liechtenstein.

Judge Eller took prosecutors' recommendations and sentenced Liechtenstein to nine months in jail plus two years' probation.

Liechtenstein pleaded guilty to elderly exploitation in May. She sold Robert Cartagena's mobile home after gaining financial power of attorney. She also disposed of his belongings and drained his bank accounts, leaving him in what his neighbors called hospice care.

Robert Dekken, the manager of the Las Vegas Jaycees Senior Community Park, contacted FOX5 Investigates after Cartagena disappeared from the park, only to surface in the long-term care facility weeks later. More than a year after that, police arrested Liechtenstein, and the Clark County District Attorney's Office moved forward with an aggressive prosecution. However, they found their sentencing options limited.

"It's shocking that in Nevada, there is a shocking amount of unlimited money that you can steal from anyone, whether it's an elderly person or a vulnerable person, any private citizen, anyone, you can steal $50 million from someone, go to trial, get convicted, and it's still a probational offense," said the prosecutor.

And the amount stolen from Cartagena was not the only offense of which her neighbors accused her.

"She's been a persistent threat to the safety, well-being, and integrity of our entire community. She's harassed staff and residents, manipulated elderly individuals into giving her financial power of attorney over them, and has inserted herself repeatedly into medical emergencies under the guise of helping when in truth her form of help has led to financial control and asset theft," Dekken told the court.

Residents reported conflicts with Liechtenstein even after the courts ordered her to stay away.

"Ms. Lichtenstein was originally remanded into custody in Justice Court for violating the terms of her release flagrantly and offensively, shockingly offensively," said the prosecutor. "She refuses to follow any orders given by any court while she's out of custody. All she had to do was be nice, be nice and avoid the residents of the mobile home park, and she couldn't do that, she refused."

Dekken told the court that, at times, it got ugly.

"She has threatened my life on multiple occasions. Blocked me in with her car, I have video of that, pretending to have a weapon by placing both hands in her pockets, attempting to provoke a reaction from me," he said. "Since I initiated the investigation into Ms. Lichtenstein, she has filed multiple retaliatory complaints against me with Nevada Manufactured Housing and contacted my employer repeatedly in an attempt to have me terminated."

Multiple former neighbors addressed the court, asking the judge to impose a harsher sentence and to keep Liechtenstein out of their park.

When given a chance to speak, the defendant again denied the accusations despite having entered a guilty plea. The prosecutor noted, she did not offer any apology.

"This is a woman who believes that anything she can get her hands on belongs to her and again feels no remorse for her decisions," the prosecutor told the court.

Liechtenstein's attorney argued against jail time, citing positive references from some of her former neighbors, although they did not appear in court on her behalf. The defense also questioned what would be accomplished by jailing a 76-year-old woman. However, Liechtenstein will spend the next nine months in the Clark County Detention Center.

Meanwhile, Cartagena continues to live in the mobile home park. He's staying with his estranged wife because the sale of his previous home could not be reversed. He's awaiting restitution for the $57,000 Liechtenstein admits to taking from his bank accounts.

Dekken says, at one point, the stress from this incident prompted his wife to urge him to quit his job. He's still overseeing the park and hopes today's sentencing will afford him and his residents the peace they've been seeking for years.