Wyckoff police: Woman stole $5,200 from seniors at health care center

YOU SAW IT HERE FIRST: With help from the staff and management of a local senior health care center, Wyckoff detectives arrested and charged a Paterson woman with writing $5,200 worth of checks that she stole from elderly patients and wrote to herself.

Jerry DeMarco

10/31/2013 6:30 p.m.

Wyckoff Police Chief Benjamin Fox said help from those at the Christian Health Care Center helped Detective Sgts. Joseph Soto and Michael Musto “uncover the person responsible.”

Joyce D. King, 40, is charged with six counts of theft.

King, a nurse’s assistant, took six checks from five different residents at the Wyckoff center, part of a large network of facilities operated by the non-profit CHCC, founded in 1911 by a group of deacons from local reformed churches.

King was released on a summonses and her case referred to the Bergen County Prosecutor’s Office for grand jury action.

MUGSHOT: Courtesy WYCKOFF PD

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