The 72-year-old victim had suffered a stroke that left her paralyzed on
the right side. Her aide took over her online banking and debit card,
police say.
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| Shantel Monique Byrd, 27, of St. Petersburg, is accused of stealing from an elderly woman while a home health aide. [Pinellas County Sheriff's Office] |
By Chris Tisch
A
woman hired as a home health aide to help an elderly woman who had
suffered a stroke has been arrested on charges that she stole thousands
of dollars from the woman over more than three years.
Shantel
Monique Byrd, 27, of St. Petersburg, is facing felony charges of
fraudulently using another person’s information and elderly
exploitation. She was arrested Thursday and booked at the Pinellas
County jail, where bail was set at $40,000. She was released the
following day.
Byrd
was brought in as a home health aide more than three years ago after
the elderly woman, then 72, had a stroke that caused paralysis on the
right side of her body, according to an arrest report filed by St.
Petersburg police.
Byrd
stole the woman’s debit card and transferred money from her client’s
savings account to her checking account 11 times. She also hid bank
statements in the closet at the elderly woman’s St. Petersburg home,
arrest reports state.
Byrd
called the bank and, using the woman’s personal information, changed
the PIN on her debit card and the online log-in to her bank account.
The
elderly woman’s credit card was fraudulently used to make 433
transactions totaling more than $34,000. Arrest reports state that
police can prove that 168 of those transactions were done by Byrd in
which she took more than $10,500.
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