{"id":386435,"date":"2026-08-31T20:18:08","date_gmt":"2026-08-31T20:18:08","guid":{"rendered":"https:\/\/www.newsbeep.com\/us-fl\/386435\/"},"modified":"2026-08-31T20:18:08","modified_gmt":"2026-08-31T20:18:08","slug":"former-treasure-coast-hospice-employee-jailed-in-ring-theft-from-dead-patient","status":"publish","type":"post","link":"https:\/\/www.newsbeep.com\/us-fl\/386435\/","title":{"rendered":"Former Treasure Coast Hospice employee jailed in ring theft from dead patient"},"content":{"rendered":"<p>STUART, Fla. (CBS12)  \u2014 A former hospice employee is behind bars after investigators say she stole two rings from a patient after they had died and later pawned one of them.<\/p>\n<p>According to <a href=\"https:\/\/www.stuartfl.gov\/753\/Police\" target=\"_blank\" rel=\"nofollow noopener\">the Stuart Police Department<\/a>, officers received a report on Aug. 18 that two rings were missing from a deceased Treasure Coast Hospice patient.<\/p>\n<p>A Stuart police detective searched pawn transaction records and discovered that a hospice employee, identified as Latoya Morrine Moye of Fort Pierce, had pawned a ring in Port St. Lucie just one day after it was reported missing.<\/p>\n<p>Police said the ring was recovered, and the patient&#8217;s family identified it as one of the two missing rings. Pawn records and surveillance video also identified Moye as the person who made the transaction, according to police.<\/p>\n<p>See also: <a href=\"https:\/\/cbs12.com\/news\/local\/west-palm-beach-man-arrested-with-gun-at-palm-beach-day-academy-private-school-trespassing-firearm-keltek-9mm-handgun-homeless-man-sleeping-stairwell-felony\" target=\"_blank\" rel=\"nofollow noopener\">West Palm Beach man arrested with gun at private school, police say<\/a><\/p>\n<p>Moye was charged with third-degree grand theft, and a warrant was issued for her arrest.<\/p>\n<p>She was later arrested in St. Lucie County. The second ring remains missing.<\/p>\n<p><a href=\"https:\/\/www.treasurehealth.org\/\" target=\"_blank\" rel=\"nofollow noopener\">Treasure Coast Hospice<\/a> is covering the cost of retrieving the recovered ring and returning it to the family.<\/p>\n","protected":false},"excerpt":{"rendered":"STUART, Fla. (CBS12) \u2014 A former hospice employee is behind bars after investigators say she stole two rings&hellip;\n","protected":false},"author":2,"featured_media":386436,"comment_status":"","ping_status":"","sticky":false,"template":"","format":"standard","meta":{"footnotes":""},"categories":[12],"tags":[171,173,172],"class_list":["post-386435","post","type-post","status-publish","format-standard","has-post-thumbnail","category-port-st-lucie","tag-port-st-lucie","tag-port-st-lucie-headlines","tag-port-st-lucie-news"],"_links":{"self":[{"href":"https:\/\/www.newsbeep.com\/us-fl\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/posts\/386435","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=386435"}],"version-history":[{"count":0,"href":"https:\/\/www.newsbeep.com\/us-fl\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/posts\/386435\/revisions"}],"wp:featuredmedia":[{"embeddable":true,"href":"https:\/\/www.newsbeep.com\/us-fl\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/media\/386436"}],"wp:attachment":[{"href":"https:\/\/www.newsbeep.com\/us-fl\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/media?parent=386435"}],"wp:term":[{"taxonomy":"category","embeddable":true,"href":"https:\/\/www.newsbeep.com\/us-fl\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/categories?post=386435"},{"taxonomy":"post_tag","embeddable":true,"href":"https:\/\/www.newsbeep.com\/us-fl\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/tags?post=386435"}],"curies":[{"name":"wp","href":"https:\/\/api.w.org\/{rel}","templated":true}]}}