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Elkhart County Man Accused Of Hiding His Father's Dead Body

GOSHEN, Ind. (AP) — A northern Indiana man faces welfare fraud and other charges alleging that he hid his father’s body for two years so that he could cash his benefit checks.

Irvin Nicholson Jr. was charged Tuesday with three counts of felony welfare fraud and one misdemeanor count of failure to report a dead body.

Nicholson Jr. told investigators he'd found his father's body in the garage in May 2017, one day after they argued about his plans to put the elder man in a retirement home. A judge hasn't set an initial hearing date. If convicted, he faces up to 2 and a half years in prison.