{"id":55105,"date":"2025-04-09T18:36:01","date_gmt":"2025-04-09T22:36:01","guid":{"rendered":"https:\/\/lakelandgazette.info\/news\/?p=55105"},"modified":"2025-04-09T18:37:21","modified_gmt":"2025-04-09T22:37:21","slug":"caretaker-arrested-for-theft","status":"publish","type":"post","link":"https:\/\/lakelandgazette.info\/news\/2025\/04\/09\/caretaker-arrested-for-theft\/","title":{"rendered":"Caretaker Arrested For Theft"},"content":{"rendered":"\n<p class=\"wp-block-paragraph\">A 25-year-old woman employed as a live-in caretaker has been arrested for allegedly stealing from an elderly disabled man in her care, according to the Polk County Sheriff\u2019s Office (PCSO).<\/p>\n\n\n<div class=\"wp-block-image\">\n<figure class=\"aligncenter size-full\"><img data-recalc-dims=\"1\" data-dominant-color=\"927f70\" data-has-transparency=\"false\" style=\"--dominant-color: #927f70;\" loading=\"lazy\" decoding=\"async\" width=\"330\" height=\"444\" sizes=\"auto, (max-width: 1110px) 100vw, 1110px\" src=\"https:\/\/i0.wp.com\/lakelandgazette.info\/news\/wp-content\/uploads\/2025\/04\/Screenshot-86-png.webp?resize=330%2C444&#038;ssl=1\" alt=\"\" class=\"wp-image-55106 not-transparent\" srcset=\"https:\/\/i0.wp.com\/lakelandgazette.info\/news\/wp-content\/uploads\/2025\/04\/Screenshot-86-png.webp?w=330&amp;ssl=1 330w, https:\/\/i0.wp.com\/lakelandgazette.info\/news\/wp-content\/uploads\/2025\/04\/Screenshot-86-png.webp?resize=223%2C300&amp;ssl=1 223w\" \/><\/figure>\n<\/div>\n\n\n<p class=\"wp-block-paragraph\">The PCSO reported that the victim contacted them on April 8th to report that his caretaker, Hannah Baggett, had unplugged a security camera and then stole cash from his room.<\/p>\n\n\n\n<p class=\"wp-block-paragraph\">During an interview with deputies, Baggett admitted to taking cash from the victim\u2019s wallet on multiple occasions. She attributed her actions to a substance abuse issue, specifically with alcohol. Baggett reportedly stated, \u201cI\u2019ve taken twenties several times. Sometimes forty and sometimes sixty.\u201d<\/p>\n\n\n\n<p class=\"wp-block-paragraph\">Hannah Baggett was arrested by the PCSO and taken to the Polk County Jail.<\/p>\n\n\n\n<p class=\"wp-block-paragraph\">She was charged with:<\/p>\n\n\n\n<ul class=\"wp-block-list\">\n<li>Petit theft<\/li>\n\n\n\n<li>Grand theft<\/li>\n\n\n\n<li>Exploitation of the elderly\/disabled<\/li>\n<\/ul>\n","protected":false},"excerpt":{"rendered":"<p>A 25-year-old woman employed as a live-in caretaker has been arrested for allegedly stealing from an elderly disabled man in her care, according to the Polk County Sheriff\u2019s Office (PCSO).&hellip; <\/p>\n","protected":false},"author":2,"featured_media":55106,"comment_status":"open","ping_status":"open","sticky":false,"template":"","format":"standard","meta":{"_seopress_titles_title":"","_seopress_titles_desc":"","_seopress_robots_index":"","_seopress_robots_follow":"","_seopress_robots_imageindex":"","_seopress_robots_snippet":"","_seopress_robots_primary_cat":"14","_seopress_robots_breadcrumbs":"","_seopress_robots_freeze_modified_date":"","_seopress_robots_custom_modified_date":"","_seopress_robots_canonical":"","_seopress_social_fb_title":"","_seopress_social_fb_desc":"","_seopress_social_fb_img":"","_seopress_social_fb_img_attachment_id":0,"_seopress_social_fb_img_width":0,"_seopress_social_fb_img_height":0,"_seopress_social_twitter_title":"","_seopress_social_twitter_desc":"","_seopress_social_twitter_img":"","_seopress_social_twitter_img_attachment_id":0,"_seopress_social_twitter_img_width":0,"_seopress_social_twitter_img_height":0,"_seopress_redirections_value":"","_seopress_redirections_enabled":"","_seopress_redirections_enabled_regex":"","_seopress_redirections_logged_status":"","_seopress_redirections_param":"","_seopress_redirections_type":0,"_seopress_analysis_target_kw":"","inline_featured_image":false,"_uf_show_specific_survey":0,"_uf_disable_surveys":false,"wpai_generated_summary":"","footnotes":"","jetpack_publicize_message":"","jetpack_publicize_feature_enabled":true,"jetpack_social_post_already_shared":false,"jetpack_social_options":{"image_generator_settings":{"template":"highway","enabled":true,"token":"eyJpbWciOiJodHRwczpcL1wvaTAud3AuY29tXC9sYWtlbGFuZGdhemV0dGUuaW5mb1wvbmV3c1wvd3AtY29udGVudFwvdXBsb2Fkc1wvMjAyNVwvMDRcL1NjcmVlbnNob3QtODYtcG5nLndlYnA_Zml0PTMzMCUyQzQ0NCZzc2w9MSIsInR4dCI6IkNhcmV0YWtlciBBcnJlc3RlZCBGb3IgVGhlZnQiLCJ0ZW1wbGF0ZSI6ImhpZ2h3YXkiLCJibG9nX2lkIjoxNjMwNDA2NjF9.mLKFUjDc19CiCHq98zvVQzPM2W1kQpNq-K_uvlQT5aEMQ"},"version":2,"attached_media":[{"id":55106,"url":"https:\/\/lakelandgazette.info\/news\/wp-content\/uploads\/2025\/04\/Screenshot-86-png.webp","type":"image\/png"}]},"_wpas_customize_per_network":false},"categories":[14],"tags":[11294],"class_list":["post-55105","post","type-post","status-publish","format-standard","has-post-thumbnail","hentry","category-news","tag-caretaker-arrested-for-theft"],"jetpack_publicize_connections":[],"_links":{"self":[{"href":"https:\/\/lakelandgazette.info\/news\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/posts\/55105","targetHints":{"allow":["GET"]}}],"collection":[{"href":"https:\/\/lakelandgazette.info\/news\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/posts"}],"about":[{"href":"https:\/\/lakelandgazette.info\/news\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/types\/post"}],"author":[{"embeddable":true,"href":"https:\/\/lakelandgazette.info\/news\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/users\/2"}],"replies":[{"embeddable":true,"href":"https:\/\/lakelandgazette.info\/news\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/comments?post=55105"}],"version-history":[{"count":1,"href":"https:\/\/lakelandgazette.info\/news\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/posts\/55105\/revisions"}],"predecessor-version":[{"id":55107,"href":"https:\/\/lakelandgazette.info\/news\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/posts\/55105\/revisions\/55107"}],"wp:featuredmedia":[{"embeddable":true,"href":"https:\/\/lakelandgazette.info\/news\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/media\/55106"}],"wp:attachment":[{"href":"https:\/\/lakelandgazette.info\/news\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/media?parent=55105"}],"wp:term":[{"taxonomy":"category","embeddable":true,"href":"https:\/\/lakelandgazette.info\/news\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/categories?post=55105"},{"taxonomy":"post_tag","embeddable":true,"href":"https:\/\/lakelandgazette.info\/news\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/tags?post=55105"}],"curies":[{"name":"wp","href":"https:\/\/api.w.org\/{rel}","templated":true}]}}