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Bucks County Home Health Aide Charged With Stealing Thousands From Elderly Patient

BUCKS COUNTY (CBS) -- A Bucks County home health care aide has been charged with stealing tens of thousands of dollars from an elderly Warminster Township woman over a 13-month period.

Bucks County Assistant DA Kate Byrne said 47-year-old Lisa Ann Lehmann-Waters, a private-duty home health aide, used a debit card and wrote several checks to herself while working for a 78-year-old woman from March 2015 until April 2016.

"Close to $19,000 just from the ATM withdrawals alone," Byrne said. "So it was a substantial theft and that coupled with unauthorized checks that were being written as well came to a total of about $56,000."

Byrne said the victim's family discovered the alleged thefts and contacted Warminster Township police to report the activity.

At the conclusion of a nearly eight-month investigation, Lehmann-Waters was arrested Tuesday and arraigned on identity theft and fraud charges.

She was committed to Bucks County Prison after failing to post 30,000 bail.

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