NEW YORK (WABC) -- Criminal charges were filed in Queens against two people who allegedly stole a dying woman's home through deed theft.

New York Attorney General Letitia James says Deepa Roy, 68, and Victor Quimis, 39, are the first to be prosecuted under stiffer new felony laws.

They are accused of working together to steal the home of Renuka Bherwani while she was receiving hospice care.

James says the two forged the woman's signature and filed a new deed on the home in Kew Gardens Hills then took out a half-million dollar mortgage.

"Deepa Roy and Victor Quimis preyed on an elderly widow in hospice to steal the home she owned for nearly 40 years," said Attorney General James. "Cases like this one are exactly why I fought to advance new laws empowering my office to prosecute deed th

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