By: Las Vegas Now Staff
Henderson police have arrested a couple whose job it was to care for the elderly. But police say instead of taking care of them, they took advantage of them. Police call this a case of elderly abuse and not just the physical kind.
It's at a place called the TLC Loving Care facility in Henderson. The home is a facility for the care of Alzheimer's patients. Police say Cynthia and Alberto Ramos did more than take care of patients. Detectives say the couple took advantage of them.
A police report says the couple took $2,500 in cash from the bank account of a 79-year-old patient at the facility. It also shows the couple used the same patient's bank card to get their nails done, buy items from Home Depot, Wal-Mart, even gas for their cars from Jun. 8 to Jun. 14.
The victim was only at the facility for six days, but it cost her $3,700.
While the patient lived in the TLC Loving Care facility, police say the couple also tried to buy a home theater system from Wal-Mart. A clerk noticed the picture of a white elderly woman on the card and denied it.
Henderson Police spokesman Todd Rasmussen said, “It is alarming that someone in their care [that] they actually took their credit cards and used them. We are glad to mark this arrest.”
Cynthia and Alberto Ramos face about 30 counts each from exploitation of the elderly to fraud with a credit card.
Eyewitness News talked with Cynthia Ramos on the phone, but she refused to comment. The police report says police officers found the victim's credit card in her wallet.
It was the victim's daughter in Kentucky who notified police of the crime. In addition to the money, she says her 79-year-old mother is missing an emerald and diamond ring.
Detectives believe there may be more victims.
Anyone who has had a loved one stay at the TLC Loving Care facility for Alzheimer's patients over the past two years is asked to contact Henderson police.
Also, there is another care facility in Henderson with a similar name. It's the TLC Care Center. It has no connection with the TLC Loving Care facility in this story.
E-mail your comments to Reporter Edward Lawrence.
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