No, Scrooge you!
A 29-year-old Florida housekeeper robbed and assaulted her 83-year-old employer on Christmas Eve when the aged lady stated she couldn’t afford to pay her once-trusted employee a vacation bonus, authorities stated this week.
Heather Nelson, 29, grew to become irate when her request for a $500 bonus was rejected by her octogenarian boss — and determined to take what she needed anyway, in response to a press launch from the Brevard County Sheriff’s Workplace.
“Nelson responded by bodily wrenching the sufferer’s checkbook from her hand, stealing a examine from the checkbook, after which, I assume in an effort to destroy different individuals’s Christmas as nicely, stole Christmas playing cards that have been set to be mailed out additionally containing checks,” Sheriff Wayne Ivey stated within the assertion.
The housekeeper, whom Ivey repeatedly referred to as a “Grinch,” allegedly grabbed the checkbook with such power that she almost broke the girl’s wrist.
Nelson then allegedly wrote a examine for $1,400 — and used the sufferer’s bank card to pay her hire and make different purchases, BCSO stated.
“What’s subsequent … kick her canine, too?” Ivey requested within the launch.
Nelson was nabbed on Jan. 7 after the examine cleared and bank card transactions have been posted, Regulation and Crime reported.
“Because you have been so nervous about getting your bonus, we had some further presents for you, like a memento reserving photograph, a barely used pair of bathe slides and limitless entry to our world-famous one-star eating facility the place you’ll be able to take pleasure in completely nothing you eat,” Ivey snarked within the BCSO assertion.
She faces a laundry checklist of expenses, together with aggravated battery, theft, forgery, fraud, passing a counterfeit instrument and grand theft, in response to court docket filings reviewed by the outlet.
She was held on a $30,000 bond and launched on Jan 9, the outlet reported.
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