A 22-year-old Brown County woman has been charged with a felony after a police say she stole a credit card from a hospice patient and charged over $700 on it.
Lyndsey Krebbs, of Gold Point Road, stole the card that belonged to a client she was taking care of as a home health aide, reported Det. Brian Shrader with the Brown County Sheriff’s Department.
Krebbs admitted to charging approximately $500, the police report said. She said she was broke. Krebbs told Shrader that the day the card was declined, she threw it out the window somewhere along Grandview Road.
Shrader added up all of the charges and they totaled $710.31.
The investigation began when Sgt. Scott Bowling went to a home on State Road 46 West on Jan. 21. A woman wanted to report that her mother’s credit card had been stolen.
She said she had received a statement in the mail from a credit card company her mother never used. Most of the charges were from Nashville businesses, including McDonald’s, the BP gas station and Family Dollar.
When the woman called the credit card company to cancel the card, the company told her more charges were pending.
Krebbs had been working in the victim’s home five days a week for four hours.
The victim’s daughter told police said that she usually gets the mail for her mother and keeps all of her cards in a file at home, but she must have missed picking up the new credit card, and her mother put it in her phone case, the report said.
Shrader reviewed security video from the BP. He saw a woman making transactions on Jan. 18 and 19, wearing a camouflage jacket and blue scrub pants. Shrader sent a photo of the woman to the victim’s daughter. She confirmed it was Krebbs and said she was in the home currently working, wearing the camouflage jacket.
The afternoon of Feb. 9, Shrader met with Krebbs and she admitted to the crime, according to a probable-cause affidavit filed in Brown Circuit Court.
She was charged on March 20 with fraud, a Level 6 felony, and theft, a Class A misdemeanor.
