On May 6, 2025, the New Prague Police Department received a report from the Minnesota Adult Abuse Reporting Center regarding the suspected financial exploitation of Victim 1 a resident of Mala Strana Assisted Living in New Prague, Scott County, Minnesota. Victim 1 is 86 years old and suffers from dementia and other serious medical conditions requiring assisted living and nursing care. The investigation revealed that Victim 1’s brother, Thomas Stanley Miles, [DOB REDACTED], who had power of attorney for Victim 1 and was added to control her bank accounts, had been assisting her with finances and medications.
Miles had access to Victim 1’s bank account and regularly withdrew funds. Miles also routinely picked up Victim 1’s prescription medications. Bank records from Riverland Bank show numerous withdrawals and checks written to Miles or made in cash between October 2024 and April 2025. Staff reported that upon Victim 1’s arrival at Mala Strana on April 18, 2025, the facility managed Victim 1’s medications. Facility records reflected that Victim 1 had taken only three 5 mg oxycodone tablets between April 18 and May 6, 2025. Despite this, the Prescription Drug Monitoring Program showed that on April 21, 2025, 180 tablets of 5 mg oxycodone were prescribed for Victim 1 and filled at a Walgreens pharmacy in New Prague.
Pharmacy records confirmed that Miles picked up that prescription. Mala Strana did not have possession of those tablets. Facility staff asked Miles to bring the oxycodone to the facility. Miles refused and stated he would manage Victim 1’s oxycodone himself. Staff reported that Victim 1 did not show signs of withdrawal despite statements attributed to Miles that he was previously administering multiple oxycodone tablets per day. During the investigation, law enforcement obtained pharmacy records showing that between June 2023 and April 2025, Miles picked up a total of 6,120 tablets of 5 mg oxycodone prescribed to Victim 1. Those prescriptions were filled at Walgreens in New Prague and First Choice Pharmacy in Jordan.
During the investigation, Miles admitted to law enforcement that he had taken oxycodone pills that were prescribed to Victim 1. Miles stated that the oxycodone was prescribed to Victim 1 and that he was not prescribed the medication himself. Miles said that Victim 1 gave him oxycodone pills over an extended period of time after he asked for them. Miles acknowledged that he knew the medication was prescribed to Victim 1 and not to him, but stated that Victim 1 provided the pills to him voluntarily.
Miles stated that he used the oxycodone pills himself. Miles further stated that, over time, he received approximately half of Victim 1’s oxycodone prescriptions. Pharmacy records show that from June 2023 through April 2025, Miles picked up a total of 6,120 oxycodone pills prescribed to Victim 1. Miles stated that Victim 1 would receive the pills and then give a portion of them to him, and he estimated that the amount he received was roughly half of the pills from each prescription. Miles admitted that he used those pills for his own pain and that the pills he used were not prescribed to him.
