{"id":520460,"date":"2026-11-06T10:03:52","date_gmt":"2026-11-06T10:03:52","guid":{"rendered":"https:\/\/www.newsbeep.com\/us-ca\/520460\/"},"modified":"2026-11-06T10:03:52","modified_gmt":"2026-11-06T10:03:52","slug":"jackson-hearing-aids-business-owner-arrested-for-elder-abuse-theft","status":"publish","type":"post","link":"https:\/\/www.newsbeep.com\/us-ca\/520460\/","title":{"rendered":"Jackson hearing aids business owner arrested for elder abuse, theft"},"content":{"rendered":"<p>A Jackson hearing aids business owner was arrested on multiple felony charges, including elder abuse, Amador County officials said Thursday.\u00a0<\/p>\n<p>Gregory Brotherton, 66, was arrested after a lengthy investigation that began in May of 2026. Brotherton is the owner of Posey&#8217;s Hearing Aids in Jackson, officials said.\u00a0<\/p>\n<p>Officials say an elderly victim reported allegations against Brotherton in May, and the investigation indicated that Brotherton allegedly approached the victim and persuaded them into providing him a substantial loan.\u00a0<\/p>\n<p>Investigators alleged that the loan was never repaid, and the victim incurred financial losses amounting to over $100,000.\u00a0<\/p>\n<p>Brotherton was booked into county jail and is currently facing charges of theft by false pretenses and elder abuse.\u00a0<\/p>\n<p>Investigators said they are also looking into other loans that Brotherton received, and they believe there may be additional victims.\u00a0<\/p>\n<p>\n          More from CBS News\n        <\/p>\n<p class=\"content__tags__label\">In:<\/p>\n","protected":false},"excerpt":{"rendered":"A Jackson hearing aids business owner was arrested on multiple felony charges, including elder abuse, Amador County officials&hellip;\n","protected":false},"author":2,"featured_media":520461,"comment_status":"","ping_status":"","sticky":false,"template":"","format":"standard","meta":{"footnotes":""},"categories":[32],"tags":[5578,723,121,123,122],"class_list":["post-520460","post","type-post","status-publish","format-standard","has-post-thumbnail","category-sacramento","tag-amador-county-news","tag-crime","tag-sacramento","tag-sacramento-headlines","tag-sacramento-news"],"_links":{"self":[{"href":"https:\/\/www.newsbeep.com\/us-ca\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/posts\/520460","targetHints":{"allow":["GET"]}}],"collection":[{"href":"https:\/\/www.newsbeep.com\/us-ca\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/posts"}],"about":[{"href":"https:\/\/www.newsbeep.com\/us-ca\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/types\/post"}],"author":[{"embeddable":true,"href":"https:\/\/www.newsbeep.com\/us-ca\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/users\/2"}],"replies":[{"embeddable":true,"href":"https:\/\/www.newsbeep.com\/us-ca\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/comments?post=520460"}],"version-history":[{"count":0,"href":"https:\/\/www.newsbeep.com\/us-ca\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/posts\/520460\/revisions"}],"wp:featuredmedia":[{"embeddable":true,"href":"https:\/\/www.newsbeep.com\/us-ca\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/media\/520461"}],"wp:attachment":[{"href":"https:\/\/www.newsbeep.com\/us-ca\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/media?parent=520460"}],"wp:term":[{"taxonomy":"category","embeddable":true,"href":"https:\/\/www.newsbeep.com\/us-ca\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/categories?post=520460"},{"taxonomy":"post_tag","embeddable":true,"href":"https:\/\/www.newsbeep.com\/us-ca\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/tags?post=520460"}],"curies":[{"name":"wp","href":"https:\/\/api.w.org\/{rel}","templated":true}]}}