{"id":272355,"date":"2026-05-15T15:29:08","date_gmt":"2026-05-15T15:29:08","guid":{"rendered":"https:\/\/www.newsbeep.com\/us-fl\/272355\/"},"modified":"2026-05-15T15:29:08","modified_gmt":"2026-05-15T15:29:08","slug":"home-health-aide-accused-of-stealing-from-miami-lakes-woman-with-dementia","status":"publish","type":"post","link":"https:\/\/www.newsbeep.com\/us-fl\/272355\/","title":{"rendered":"Home health aide accused of stealing from Miami Lakes woman with dementia"},"content":{"rendered":"<p class=\"text text--small text--normal text--primary\">Published:\u00a0May 15, 2026 at 10:46 AM<\/p>\n<p>lead-art-block.fullscreen-enterExpand<img fetchpriority=\"high\" decoding=\"async\" data-chromatic=\"ignore\" alt=\"\" class=\"c-image\" loading=\"eager\" src=\"https:\/\/www.newsbeep.com\/us-fl\/wp-content\/uploads\/2026\/05\/ALD3DV35TVBDRIZCEN4MW7OS6Q.jpg\"  width=\"1280\" height=\"720\"\/>Detectives arrested Janet Hernandez on Thursday in Miami-Dade County. <\/p>\n<p class=\"c-paragraph\">MIAMI LAKES, Fla.  \u2014 A 44-year-old woman stands accused of stealing from a Miami Lakes woman with dementia that she was supposed to be protecting while working as a home health aide, according to a Miami-Dade Sheriff\u2019s Office deputy\u2019s arrest report. <\/p>\n<p class=\"c-paragraph\">Detectives arrested Janet Hernandez on Thursday after the woman\u2019s son installed a Ring surveillance camera that recorded videos showing her carrying full garbage bags to her 2011 white Chevrolet SUV, according to the M-DSO deputy\u2019s report. <\/p>\n<p class=\"c-paragraph\">\u201cShe was also captured taking a new generator, pottery, plates, cleaning items, and other random miscellaneous items from inside the residence and placing them inside her vehicle,\u201d a deputy wrote, according to the report. <\/p>\n<p class=\"c-paragraph\">Hernandez, who was working for United Homecare at the victim\u2019s home in Miami Lakes, published a video showing her wearing \u201ca unique gold cross pendant that was also missing from the residence\u201d on Facebook in March, according to the deputy\u2019s report.<\/p>\n<p class=\"c-paragraph\">Hernandez faced charges of theft from the elderly and third-degree grand theft. <\/p>\n<p class=\"c-paragraph\">Local 10 News Assignment Editor Carson Merlo contributed to this report. <\/p>\n<p class=\"c-paragraph b-article-body__copyright\">Copyright 2026 by WPLG Local10.com &#8211; All rights reserved.<\/p>\n<p><img decoding=\"async\" data-chromatic=\"ignore\" alt=\"Andrea Torres\" class=\"c-image\" loading=\"lazy\" src=\"https:\/\/www.newsbeep.com\/us-fl\/wp-content\/uploads\/2026\/05\/https:\/\/author-service-images-sandbox-us-east-1.publishing.aws.arc.pub\/wplginc\/83a8effa-fc87-4940-96.jpeg\"  width=\"100\" height=\"100\"\/>Andrea Torres<\/p>\n<p class=\"c-paragraph b-author-bio__author-description\">The Emmy Award-winning journalist joined the Local 10 News team in 2013. She wrote for the Miami Herald for more than 9 years and won a Green Eyeshade Award.<\/p>\n","protected":false},"excerpt":{"rendered":"Published:\u00a0May 15, 2026 at 10:46 AM lead-art-block.fullscreen-enterExpandDetectives arrested Janet Hernandez on Thursday in Miami-Dade County. MIAMI LAKES, Fla.&hellip;\n","protected":false},"author":2,"featured_media":272356,"comment_status":"","ping_status":"","sticky":false,"template":"","format":"standard","meta":{"footnotes":""},"categories":[15],"tags":[225,227,226],"class_list":["post-272355","post","type-post","status-publish","format-standard","has-post-thumbnail","category-hialeah","tag-hialeah","tag-hialeah-headlines","tag-hialeah-news"],"_links":{"self":[{"href":"https:\/\/www.newsbeep.com\/us-fl\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/posts\/272355","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=272355"}],"version-history":[{"count":0,"href":"https:\/\/www.newsbeep.com\/us-fl\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/posts\/272355\/revisions"}],"wp:featuredmedia":[{"embeddable":true,"href":"https:\/\/www.newsbeep.com\/us-fl\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/media\/272356"}],"wp:attachment":[{"href":"https:\/\/www.newsbeep.com\/us-fl\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/media?parent=272355"}],"wp:term":[{"taxonomy":"category","embeddable":true,"href":"https:\/\/www.newsbeep.com\/us-fl\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/categories?post=272355"},{"taxonomy":"post_tag","embeddable":true,"href":"https:\/\/www.newsbeep.com\/us-fl\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/tags?post=272355"}],"curies":[{"name":"wp","href":"https:\/\/api.w.org\/{rel}","templated":true}]}}