Nursing Home Worker Steals Credit Cards, Check From Patient's Wife

Lately, the news has been abuzz with foster children and toddlers having their identities stolen, and last week, the elderly were brought to the forefront as being vulnerable to identity theft.

80-year-old Loretta Louise Brillhart's husband Richard was a patient at the Colonial Manor Nursing & Rehabilitation Center earlier this year. During a visit, she left her purse in her husband's room, and Nicole Janise Jones, a caregiver for Richard, stole one of Loretta's checks as well as her credit card and debit card.

Jones used the check to pay her $612.93 Comcast bill, and she charged an undisclosed amount to the credit and debit card. According to the York Daily Record, she went shopping with the credit card and just kept charging the card until it was finally declined.

For high levels of stupidity and the moral depravity to steal from an 80-year-old woman, I am awarding Nicole Janise Jones with the Navin R. Johnson Award. Ms. Jones, you stole from your patient's wife. I have no qualms saying that you are a horrible human being. I hear you are currently being held in the York County Prison, and I hope you stay there.

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