SHAMEFUL
Caregiver ‘stole diamond engagement ring from elderly woman dying of coronavirus’
A CAREGIVER to an 86-year-old woman who was dying of the coronavirus allegedly stole the senior’s engagement ring and credit card — and is said to have used it on the day she died.
Elizabeth Daniels, 29, was responsible for caring for Barbara Gust, an at-risk elderly woman from who had been diagnosed with .
3
Days before Gust’s death, Daniels Gust’s diamond engagement ring — and pawned it off, the District Attorney’s Office .
Daniels also allegedly stole Gust’s credit card, which authorities believe she “used to make purchases on the same day Ms. Gust died as a result of COVID-19.”
When Gust died from the pandemic — that’s people across the — her family “was making arrangements with the funeral home” when they learned of the alleged crimes.
Her family reported what they say happened to the local and detectives quickly issued a warrant for Daniels’ arrest.
3
Daniels has been charged with theft from an at-risk person, identity theft, providing a false statement to a pawnbroker and criminal possession of a financial transaction device.
According to , Gust’s ring was recovered after it had been pawned off.
The alleged crime isn’t the first to happen amid the global outbreak of the coronavirus.
In last week, a woman named Jacqueline McBride, 27, an Italian grocery store.
3
MOST READ IN NEWS
McBride apparently became upset that the other customer was trying to socially distance herself and allegedly bumped into her then spit in her face.
“She came too close to me and I just backed away from her, and I guess that upset her. She just said, ‘B****, I don’t have the disease,’” the other customer, Alexis Danilo .
McBride was charged with simple assault, terroristic threats and harassment.
Topics