A personal care aide stole an elderly Bayport patient’s credit card and used it to buy more than $2,500 worth of merchandise over 23 days last month, Suffolk County police said.
Lynn Spruill, 31, was charged with grand larceny and forgery.
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Fifth Squad detectives said the family of an 80-year-old woman with Alzheimer’s disease called police after they received her credit card statement with 31 suspicious charges and discovered that her card was missing.
Investigators gathered surveillance photos that showed Spruill, who had been caring for the victim for six months, making purchases with the stolen credit card, police said
Spruill, an employee of Premier Home Health Care in Ronkonkoma, was arrested Monday as she reported to work at the victim’s Woodland Drive home.
She was also charged with criminal possession of a controlled substance when detectives found her to be in possession of oxycodone and hydroquinone, police said.
Spruill will be arraigned Tuesday at First District Court in Central Islip.
