A Jay woman is charged with stealing from a recently deceased relative — twice.

Melissa S. Lamour, 45, had resided with and become a health care proxy for that person, State Police Troop B Public Information Officer Trooper Jennifer Fleishman said, before illegally transferring ownership of the deceased’s car and using his credit card to pay her cellphone bill.

She allegedly paid a $45 bill with the card after the man’s death.

Lamour also allegedly forged his signature on the car’s title before re-registering it in her own name.

The alleged credit card use earned her a felony charge of fourth-degree grand larceny and a misdemeanor petit larceny charge.

For the alleged title forgery, she was charged with first-degree offering a false instrument for filing, a felony.

She was released and received appearance tickets returnable to Jay Town Court for the credit card charges and to Elizabethtown Town Court for the alleged forgery.

Neither court was open on Friday, so further information was not available.

Stolen rifles

Lamour has been in trouble with the law in the past.

In August 2012, then living in Moriah, she was sentenced after admitting she had two stolen rifles.

She had pleaded guilty in April to two counts of fourth-degree criminal possession of stolen property.

Lamour, who lived in Crown Point when she was arrested in January 2012, was sentenced to six months in Essex County Jail with five years of felony probation for both charges; the time was to run concurrently.