Nursing Home Resident Catches Her Thief Red-Handed
An eighty-eight year-old resident set up and caught a thief at Oakmont Nursing Home in Union, South Carolina.
The resident, who lives in a residential section of the nursing home facility, noticed that she was repeatedly missing cash from her room. Recently, she left $60 in a bank envelope inside a purse that she placed in a drawer when she left the room. When she checked the money the next morning, $40 was missing. Only the resident and facility employees have keys to the room.
The resident reported the theft to the facility supervisor and then decided to set up her thief. She left two $5 bills in her purse in the drawer. The bills ended up being taken at two different times when the resident was out of the room. Police were called and, after comparing the theft times with the work schedule of the facility employees, police arrested Brenda Rochester on two counts of second-degree burglary and petit larceny.
