The live-in boyfriend of a missing Wyoming woman was sentenced to up to six years in prison and ordered to pay fines after pleading guilty to stealing thousands of dollars from her in the weeks after she vanished, according to the Gillette News Record
At his sentencing hearing, Nathan Hightman was given three- to six-year prison sentences for felony theft and unlawful use of a credit card, the News Record reported. The sentences are set to run concurrently. He was also sentenced to three years of probation. Hightman, 39, had shared a house in Gillette with Gakwa, a Kenyan immigrant who’d moved to the United States in 2019 to go to nursing school.
Hightman told investigators he withdrew the funds to force her to contact him when she ran out of money following her disappearance. Investigators said Hightman changed Gakwa’s banking account password and deleted her email account. Gakwa moved from Kenya to attend nursing school in the Boise, Idaho, area, where her two older brothers live. She met Hightman on a Craigslist forum and moved to Gillette with him in July 2021.
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