A home health aide is accused of stealing from the elderly woman with dementia who she was taking care of in Miami Lakes, authorities said.
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Janet Hernandez, 44, was arrested Thursday on charges of grand theft and theft from elderly, an arrest report said.
According to an arrest report, the Miami-Dade Sheriff’s Office began their investigation last month after the alleged theft was reported by the elderly woman’s son.
The son said Hernandez was the assigned home health aide for his mother, who is in the early stages of dementia.
He told investigators he lives in Tallahassee and comes to visit every two to three months and began to notice that clothing, jewelry, furniture and decorations were missing, the report said.
At first he thought it was his sister or mother moving items around but the sister told him she hadn’t moved or borrowed anything.
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The son said he installed a Ring camera in January above the garage door that captured Hernandez carrying multiple full garbage bags to her vehicle, the report said.
She was also seen on video taking a new generator, pottery, plates and cleaning items from the home to her car, the report said.
In addition, the son said he found a video on Facebook of Hernandez wearing what appeared to be a cross pendant that was taken from his mother, the report said.
Detectives met with Hernandez who spontaneously said she “took all the items from the property since she needed them for personal use,” the report said.
Hernandez was arrested and booked into jail. She was expected to appear in bond court on Friday.
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