{"id":300002,"date":"2026-06-08T14:53:16","date_gmt":"2026-06-08T14:53:16","guid":{"rendered":"https:\/\/www.newsbeep.com\/us-fl\/300002\/"},"modified":"2026-06-08T14:53:16","modified_gmt":"2026-06-08T14:53:16","slug":"after-october-neglect-arrest-hialeah-police-accuse-woman-of-draining-disabled-moms-life-savings","status":"publish","type":"post","link":"https:\/\/www.newsbeep.com\/us-fl\/300002\/","title":{"rendered":"After October neglect arrest, Hialeah police accuse woman of draining disabled mom\u2019s \u2018life savings\u2019"},"content":{"rendered":"<p class=\"c-paragraph\">HIALEAH, Fla. \u2014 The October arrest of a woman after her disabled mother, then 77, was <a href=\"https:\/\/www.local10.com\/news\/local\/2025\/10\/22\/hialeah-woman-jailed-after-mother-77-found-eating-own-feces-police-say\/\" target=\"_self\" rel=\"nofollow noopener\" title=\"https:\/\/www.local10.com\/news\/local\/2025\/10\/22\/hialeah-woman-jailed-after-mother-77-found-eating-own-feces-police-say\/\">found eating her own feces<\/a> led Hialeah Police Department detectives to discover that she was also taking financial advantage of the senior, draining her \u201clife savings,\u201d authorities said.<\/p>\n<p class=\"c-paragraph\">Police said that led to a new arrest of Janet Edwards, 49, on multiple felony charges on Friday.<\/p>\n<p class=\"c-paragraph\">An HPD arrest warrant states that Edwards, who has addresses in Hialeah and Miami Beach, had power-of-attorney over the now-78-year-old, who suffers from severe cognitive impairment.<\/p>\n<p class=\"c-paragraph\">According to the warrant, detectives began the financial probe after Edwards\u2019 own daughter \u2015 who became the senior\u2019s court-appointed guardian \u2015 \u201cdiscovered multiple bank statements which indicated large withdrawals and electronic transfers from (the victim\u2019s) bank accounts beginning in 2023\u201a\u201d following Edwards\u2019 initial arrest on Oct. 21, 2025.<\/p>\n<p class=\"c-paragraph\">Investigators said in June 2024, Edwards sold her mother\u2019s Hialeah home, netting more than $462,000 from the deal. The warrant states that Edwards moved more than $250,000 of that to her own accounts and also spent more than $24,000 of her mother\u2019s money to buy a pickup truck.<\/p>\n<p class=\"c-paragraph\">Authorities said she also forged her mother\u2019s signature on more than $15,000 in life insurance payouts and posed as her mother on phone calls with the insurance company.<\/p>\n<p class=\"c-paragraph\">Edwards, who court records show has a long history of arrests in Miami-Dade County, is now facing additional charges of elderly exploitation, grand theft from a person 65 or older, organized scheme to defraud and identity theft.<\/p>\n<p class=\"c-paragraph\">As of Monday morning, she was being held in the Turner Guilford Knight Correctional Center on a $55,000 bond.<\/p>\n<p>\ud83c\udfe0 News From Your Neighborhood<\/p>\n<p class=\"c-paragraph b-article-body__copyright\">Copyright 2026 by WPLG Local10.com &#8211; All rights reserved.<\/p>\n","protected":false},"excerpt":{"rendered":"HIALEAH, Fla. \u2014 The October arrest of a woman after her disabled mother, then 77, was found eating&hellip;\n","protected":false},"author":2,"featured_media":300003,"comment_status":"","ping_status":"","sticky":false,"template":"","format":"standard","meta":{"footnotes":""},"categories":[9],"tags":[123,125,124],"class_list":["post-300002","post","type-post","status-publish","format-standard","has-post-thumbnail","category-miami","tag-miami","tag-miami-headlines","tag-miami-news"],"_links":{"self":[{"href":"https:\/\/www.newsbeep.com\/us-fl\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/posts\/300002","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=300002"}],"version-history":[{"count":0,"href":"https:\/\/www.newsbeep.com\/us-fl\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/posts\/300002\/revisions"}],"wp:featuredmedia":[{"embeddable":true,"href":"https:\/\/www.newsbeep.com\/us-fl\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/media\/300003"}],"wp:attachment":[{"href":"https:\/\/www.newsbeep.com\/us-fl\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/media?parent=300002"}],"wp:term":[{"taxonomy":"category","embeddable":true,"href":"https:\/\/www.newsbeep.com\/us-fl\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/categories?post=300002"},{"taxonomy":"post_tag","embeddable":true,"href":"https:\/\/www.newsbeep.com\/us-fl\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/tags?post=300002"}],"curies":[{"name":"wp","href":"https:\/\/api.w.org\/{rel}","templated":true}]}}