Home Health Aide Accused Of Pawning Stolen Jewelry From Patient
Police say they have arrested in Hammonton a home health aide for allegedly attempting to pawn stolen jewelry from the home of an elderly woman she was caring for.
Police say the investigation started Monday.
In Egg Harbor Township, when investigators found several "suspicious" pawn slips for jewelry items that were sold over the last week
Upon further investigation, police determined the seller was a home health aide for an elderly woman Hammonton.
Hammonton Police picked up the investigation from there and later found their suspect.
Police say they have arrested Melissa Haugh, 26, of Little Egg Harbor Township.
Haugh now faces theft, drug and stolen property charges.
A West Jordan woman has been charged with knowingly accepting stolen jewelry taken during an armed holdup of a Murray business load December.
Melanie Darlene Bixby, 24, was charged Wednesday. In 3rd District Court with one felony count of second-degree receiving stolen property, specifically more than $ 6,000 worth of rings taken Dec. 23, 2011, from the Sierra West Jewelry Store at 6190 S. State St., Murray.
Police are still looking for two male suspects who robbed the store at gunpoint. The pair wore gloves and masks during the robbery, during Which the manager was forced to open the store's safe. In addition to jewelry, so the thieves took an unspecified amount of cash, and stole other items after smashing display cases.
No one was injured and the two suspects fled in a getaway vehicle driven by a third suspect.
According to a probable-cause statement filed with the charge, detectives served a search warrant on Bixby's home in the West Bank on June 6th The stolen jewelry was located in her safe, prosecutors allege.
Bixby admitted to investigators that she was "pretty sure the rings were stolen," the statement notes.