Stacy Ramage

MILLEDGEVILLE, Ga. — A caregiver was arrested by local authorities after she reportedly cashed checks from an elderly woman’s account. 

Stacy Ann Ramage, of Mount Pleasant Church Road, Milledgeville, was arrested Tuesday by officers with the Milledgeville Police Department after one of Ramage’s fellow caregivers found checks from the elderly woman’s checkbook missing. 

Shortly after 9 a.m. March 6, according to a Milledgeville Police Department incident report, Officer Chasten Jackson-Rogers was dispatched to a West Charlton Street residence in reference to a fraud. There, she met with the homeowner’s head caregiver who said she had been balancing her patient’s checkbook a few days before when she noticed two checks missing from inside, and had also received a statement from the elderly woman’s bank that included the missing checks. 

She said the bank statement listed the missing checks, which together totaled more than $1,100, as being made out to Ramage, and believed Ramage had been writing and cashing the checks herself. 

After taking the caregiver’s account, Jackson-Rogers spoke to the patient herself, who said she wished to press charges on whoever was stealing from her account. The officer attempted to reach Ramage by phone but was unsuccessful, and obtained warrants for two counts of misdemeanor theft by taking and two counts of forgery in the 4th degree, which is classified as a misdemeanor. 

The head caregiver said Ramage would be reporting to the patient’s house around 3 p.m. that afternoon, and after waiting for the suspect to arrive for her shift, Jackson-Rogers arrested her and transported her to MPD detention. 

Ramage was released from the Baldwin County Law Enforcement Center Wednesday evening and awaits an appearance before a state court judge.