Franklin Lakes Home Health Aide Charged With Stealing $200K In Valuables

FRANKLIN LAKES, N.J. – A Franklin Lakes home health aide from Garfield stole $20,000 worth of valuables from two different homes late last summer, said police who arrested her.

Mariela Del Rosario
Photo Credit: *MUGSHOT: Courtesy FRANKLIN LAKES PD*

Jerry DeMarco

03/30/2017 9:13 a.m.

Mariela Del Rosario, 30, was ordered held in the Bergen County Jail pending a detention hearing after borough police arrested her at her home Wednesday and charged her with various counts of theft.

Del Rosario stole a laptop, jewelry and credit cards from a Courter Road residence and jewelry from a Meadow Lane residence, Capt. John Bakelaar said Thursday morning.

She’d worked as a home health aide at both locations, he said.

Detectives Robert Grassi and Jon Rynander investigated, producing the arrest, Bakelaar said.

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