Deputies arrested a nursing assistant Tuesday who was accused of stealing more than $18,000 from an elderly disabled patient and using it to pay her mother’s bills.
Taylor Nicole Gober, 26, of Gainesville, worked at Comfort Keepers Home Care, at 1035 NW 57th St., taking care of a 71-year-old woman, according to an Alachua County Sheriff’s Office arrest report.
While Gober was caring for the woman, she stole her bank account information, the report said.
From December 2017 to November 2018, Gober used the information to pay for her and her mother’s seven Gainesville Regional Utilities bills and her mother’s seven Cox Communications bills, the report said. Gober also paid for four of her Progressive Corporation bills. The payments totaled to about $6,700.
She also stole three personal checks and forged it to make it out to herself, the report said. The forged checks totaled $11,500.
Gober had multiple charges including grand theft of less than $20,000, petit theft, fraud, possessing the ID of another person without consent and exploitation of the elderly of under $50,000, the report said.
In February 2018, she was charged for using the woman’s credit card to make payments to GRU and Papa John’s Pizza, according to court records. She admitted to using the card but prosecution was deferred for 18 months in October.
She remains in the Alachua County Jail in lieu of an $82,600 bond.
Taylor Nicole Gober
