Palm Beach Adult Entertainment: DCF employees charged with defrauding Palm Beach patient
December 31st, 2009 by adultpalmbeachPalm Beach Post Staff Writer
Updated: 9:10 p.m. Wednesday, Dec. 30, 2009 Posted: 2:41 p.m. Wednesday, Dec. 30, 2009
PALM BEACH — Two women employed by the state to protect a vulnerable elderly woman instead preyed on her, stealing about $20,000 from her bank accounts while she was hospitalized for dementia, police said Wednesday.
Both women were adult protective investigators with the Florida Department of Children and Families. One went so far as to wait in 85-year-old Jane Janssen’s Cocoanut Row apartment and pose as Janssen if the banks called to verify transactions, according to arrest affidavits made public Wednesday.
After investigating, Palm Beach Police Detective Nicholas Caristo arrested Mindi Marie Berry, 33, her DCF supervisor, Greta Laverne Lambert, 41, and a third woman, an employee of an escort service who told police she was hired to cash stolen checks.
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