Carbondale cops say a couple told elaborate lies to defraud a family friend out of tens of thousands of dollars! Officers charged Everitt for helping his girlfriend, Ashley Sobel, bilk a couple out of more than $26,000 last September. “She needed money because she had cancer and she`d show me the bandage on her arm and she`d show me the clumps of hair that she would pull out saying she was dying,” said Kathy.