{"id":401431,"date":"2026-09-16T12:02:18","date_gmt":"2026-09-16T12:02:18","guid":{"rendered":"https:\/\/www.newsbeep.com\/us-fl\/401431\/"},"modified":"2026-09-16T12:02:18","modified_gmt":"2026-09-16T12:02:18","slug":"woman-wanted-for-posing-as-caregiver-in-elderly-thefts-arrested-after-standoff-bso-says-nbc-6-south-florida-2","status":"publish","type":"post","link":"https:\/\/www.newsbeep.com\/us-fl\/401431\/","title":{"rendered":"Woman wanted for posing as caregiver in elderly thefts arrested after standoff, BSO says \u2013 NBC 6 South Florida"},"content":{"rendered":"

A woman arrested last year for posing as a caregiver to steal from elderly victims in Broward County<\/a> and who was wanted<\/a> after authorities said she went right back to her theft scheme after her release from jail has been taken into custody, officials said.<\/p>\n

Jamisha Shamari Sylvain, 27, was taken into custody Monday night after an hours-long standoff, Broward Sheriff’s Office officials said.<\/p>\n

BSO’s Burglary Apprehension Team had been conducting surveillance on Sylvain before she entered an apartment in Deerfield Beach and refused to exit, officials said.<\/p>\n

Deputies, SWAT officers and crisis negotiators responded and she was convinced to leave the apartment, authorities said.<\/p>\n

Sylvain had been arrested in December 2025 on several charges, including fraud, exploitation of the elderly less than $20,000 and burglary of an unoccupied dwelling.<\/p>\n

According to BSO, deputies had received a report that an elderly man was being exploited by a woman, and that she was posing as a caregiver at the B\u2019nai B\u2019rith apartments in Deerfield Beach.<\/p>\n

Defectives said the elderly man let the woman into his apartment, and she took his credit card and withdrew money several times, which totaled $1,600.<\/p>\n

As detectives continued to investigate, they learned that more incidents had happened in which Sylvain pretended to be a professional caregiver and would go to elderly victims’ apartments after they gave her permission.<\/p>\n

In some instances, detectives said, Sylvain would tell her victims that she was assigned as a caregiver by their health insurance company.<\/p>\n

Once she got inside the apartments, Sylvain would steal their debit cards and tell her victims that she needed their personal banking information, authorities said.<\/p>\n

Sylvain was released from jail in May, and since then, detectives have identified at least two new cases involving a “similar ruse” as before, with Sylvain falsely identifying herself to gain the trust of elderly victims, BSO officials said.<\/p>\n

In one instance, authorities said Sylvain found a victim at The Pointe at Deerfield Beach Senior Living, where she pretended to be a building manager then stole a debit card, credit cards and cash, authorities said.<\/p>\n

Sylvain was booked into jail on Monday on charges including grand theft, burglary, organized fraud, and criminal use of personal identification information, records showed.<\/p>\n

BSO officials said their investigation was ongoing.<\/p>\n","protected":false},"excerpt":{"rendered":"A woman arrested last year for posing as a caregiver to steal from elderly victims in Broward County…\n","protected":false},"author":2,"featured_media":401432,"comment_status":"","ping_status":"","sticky":false,"template":"","format":"standard","meta":{"footnotes":""},"categories":[17],"tags":[506,16484,249,251,250],"class_list":["post-401431","post","type-post","status-publish","format-standard","has-post-thumbnail","category-fort-lauderdale","tag-broward-county","tag-deerfield-beach","tag-fort-lauderdale","tag-fort-lauderdale-headlines","tag-fort-lauderdale-news"],"_links":{"self":[{"href":"https:\/\/www.newsbeep.com\/us-fl\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/posts\/401431","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=401431"}],"version-history":[{"count":0,"href":"https:\/\/www.newsbeep.com\/us-fl\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/posts\/401431\/revisions"}],"wp:featuredmedia":[{"embeddable":true,"href":"https:\/\/www.newsbeep.com\/us-fl\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/media\/401432"}],"wp:attachment":[{"href":"https:\/\/www.newsbeep.com\/us-fl\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/media?parent=401431"}],"wp:term":[{"taxonomy":"category","embeddable":true,"href":"https:\/\/www.newsbeep.com\/us-fl\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/categories?post=401431"},{"taxonomy":"post_tag","embeddable":true,"href":"https:\/\/www.newsbeep.com\/us-fl\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/tags?post=401431"}],"curies":[{"name":"wp","href":"https:\/\/api.w.org\/{rel}","templated":true}]}}