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Courtesy: St. Johns County Sheriff’s Office. <\/p>\n
ST. AUGUSTINE, Fla. – A Jacksonville caregiver has been accused of stealing nearly $100,000 from one of the elderly patients that she was caring for.<\/p>\n
The St. Johns County Sheriff’s Office began an investigation back in January 2025 after the victim reported that money was missing from her account.<\/p>\n
What we know:<\/p>\n
According to detectives, the scheme began in February 2024 when 38-year-old Stacy Gordon allegedly used the victim’s personal information to open a fraudulent credit card account.\u00a0<\/p>\n
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Courtesy: St. Johns County Sheriff’s Office. <\/p>\n
That account was later linked to Gordon\u2019s Companion Care, a business that Gordon owned and operated.<\/p>\n
After a warrant was issued, detectives were able to track her down in New Jersey, and she was brought back to Florida<\/a>.<\/p>\n READ: Lakeland cleaning lady accused of \u2018cleaning out\u2019 more customers and pawning their stolen jewelry<\/a><\/p>\n By the numbers:<\/p>\n Between April and November 2024, authorities confirmed that Gordon took $98,075.95 from the victim.\u00a0<\/p>\n Detectives say that Gordon acted with intent to deprive the elderly patient of her property.<\/p>\n Gordon is currently being held at the St. Johns County Jail, and she faces the following charges:<\/p>\n Scheme to defraud ($50,000 or more)Criminal use of personal identification informationGrand theftExploitation of an elderly person <\/p>\n What we don’t know:<\/p>\n The name of the victim was not released to protect her privacy.<\/p>\n The Source: Information for this story was provided by the St. Johns County Sheriff’s Office.<\/p>\n Florida<\/a>Crime and Public Safety<\/a> <\/p>\n","protected":false},"excerpt":{"rendered":"article Courtesy: St. Johns County Sheriff’s Office. ST. AUGUSTINE, Fla. – A Jacksonville caregiver has been accused of…\n","protected":false},"author":2,"featured_media":177108,"comment_status":"","ping_status":"","sticky":false,"template":"","format":"standard","meta":{"footnotes":""},"categories":[6],"tags":[630,47,28,30,29,115,628],"class_list":["post-177107","post","type-post","status-publish","format-standard","has-post-thumbnail","category-florida","tag-crime-publicsafety","tag-fl","tag-florida","tag-florida-headlines","tag-florida-news","tag-news","tag-us"],"_links":{"self":[{"href":"https:\/\/www.newsbeep.com\/us-fl\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/posts\/177107","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=177107"}],"version-history":[{"count":0,"href":"https:\/\/www.newsbeep.com\/us-fl\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/posts\/177107\/revisions"}],"wp:featuredmedia":[{"embeddable":true,"href":"https:\/\/www.newsbeep.com\/us-fl\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/media\/177108"}],"wp:attachment":[{"href":"https:\/\/www.newsbeep.com\/us-fl\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/media?parent=177107"}],"wp:term":[{"taxonomy":"category","embeddable":true,"href":"https:\/\/www.newsbeep.com\/us-fl\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/categories?post=177107"},{"taxonomy":"post_tag","embeddable":true,"href":"https:\/\/www.newsbeep.com\/us-fl\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/tags?post=177107"}],"curies":[{"name":"wp","href":"https:\/\/api.w.org\/{rel}","templated":true}]}}