{"id":146213,"date":"2026-02-06T16:31:23","date_gmt":"2026-02-06T16:31:23","guid":{"rendered":"https:\/\/www.newsbeep.com\/us-fl\/146213\/"},"modified":"2026-02-06T16:31:23","modified_gmt":"2026-02-06T16:31:23","slug":"patient-care-technician-arrested-for-theft-2","status":"publish","type":"post","link":"https:\/\/www.newsbeep.com\/us-fl\/146213\/","title":{"rendered":"Patient Care Technician Arrested for Theft"},"content":{"rendered":"<p>                                <img decoding=\"async\" src=\"https:\/\/www.newsbeep.com\/us-fl\/wp-content\/uploads\/2026\/02\/bailey-slater.jpg\" alt=\"Patient Care Technician Arrested for Theft\" class=\"pr-3 pb-3\" aria-label=\"Patient Care Technician Arrested for Theft\"\/><\/p>\n<p>The Hillsborough County Sheriff&#8217;s Office has arrested a patient care technician employed at HCA Florida Brandon Hospital.<\/p>\n<p>\u00a0<\/p>\n<p>On January 22, 2026, Bailey Slater, 28, an employee at the hospital, stole a 94-year-old patient&#8217;s wallet. Slater used the victim&#8217;s credit cards to rack up more than $500 in purchases that same day.\u00a0HCA Florida Brandon Hospital identified the misconduct and worked closely with detectives to ensure Slater was held accountable.\u00a0<\/p>\n<p>\u00a0<\/p>\n<p>A warrant for Slater&#8217;s arrest was issued, and she turned herself in to Orient Road Jail on January 30, 2026.\u00a0<\/p>\n<p>\u00a0<\/p>\n<p>Slater is being charged with Petit Theft First Degree ($100 or More, but Less Than $750), Unauthorized Use of Credit Card Under $300 (x2), and\u00a0<\/p>\n<p>Fraudulent Use of Personal Information of an Elderly Person (x2).<\/p>\n<p>\u00a0<\/p>\n<p>&#8220;Taking advantage of some of our most vulnerable community members while entrusted with their care is shameful and reprehensible,&#8221;\u00a0said Sheriff Chad Chronister.\u00a0&#8220;We will make sure justice\u00a0is served, and we hope anyone considering this kind of behavior understands they will be held accountable.&#8221;<\/p>\n<p>\u00a0<\/p>\n<p>This is an active investigation. Any updates will come from the Public Affairs Office.\u00a0<br \/>&#13;<br \/>\n\u00a0<\/p>\n<p>                                Additional Images<\/p>\n<p>                                                <img decoding=\"async\" src=\"https:\/\/www.newsbeep.com\/us-fl\/wp-content\/uploads\/2026\/02\/slater-target.png\" alt=\"Patient Care Technician Arrested for Theft Supporting Image\"\/><\/p>\n","protected":false},"excerpt":{"rendered":"The Hillsborough County Sheriff&#8217;s Office has arrested a patient care technician employed at HCA Florida Brandon Hospital. \u00a0&hellip;\n","protected":false},"author":2,"featured_media":142449,"comment_status":"","ping_status":"","sticky":false,"template":"","format":"standard","meta":{"footnotes":""},"categories":[10],"tags":[135,137,136],"class_list":["post-146213","post","type-post","status-publish","format-standard","has-post-thumbnail","category-tampa","tag-tampa","tag-tampa-headlines","tag-tampa-news"],"_links":{"self":[{"href":"https:\/\/www.newsbeep.com\/us-fl\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/posts\/146213","targetHints":{"allow":["GET"]}}],"collection":[{"href":"https:\/\/www.newsbeep.com\/us-fl\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/posts"}],"about":[{"href":"https:\/\/www.newsbeep.com\/us-fl\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/types\/post"}],"author":[{"embeddable":true,"href":"https:\/\/www.newsbeep.com\/us-fl\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/users\/2"}],"replies":[{"embeddable":true,"href":"https:\/\/www.newsbeep.com\/us-fl\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/comments?post=146213"}],"version-history":[{"count":0,"href":"https:\/\/www.newsbeep.com\/us-fl\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/posts\/146213\/revisions"}],"wp:featuredmedia":[{"embeddable":true,"href":"https:\/\/www.newsbeep.com\/us-fl\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/media\/142449"}],"wp:attachment":[{"href":"https:\/\/www.newsbeep.com\/us-fl\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/media?parent=146213"}],"wp:term":[{"taxonomy":"category","embeddable":true,"href":"https:\/\/www.newsbeep.com\/us-fl\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/categories?post=146213"},{"taxonomy":"post_tag","embeddable":true,"href":"https:\/\/www.newsbeep.com\/us-fl\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/tags?post=146213"}],"curies":[{"name":"wp","href":"https:\/\/api.w.org\/{rel}","templated":true}]}}