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Latisha Amina Ladell (Maricopa County Sheriff’s Office)<\/strong><\/p>\n PHOENIX<\/strong> – A woman has been arrested in Phoenix, according to investigators, for allegedly taking jewelry from the homes of people in hospice care.<\/p>\n What we know:<\/p>\n Court documents identified the suspect as 40-year-old Latisha Amina Ladell. She was arrested on Jan. 8.<\/p>\n Big picture view:<\/p>\n Police say Ladell was hired as a caregiver for hospice patients, and she was at a Phoenix home to provide care services on July 26, 2025 when she allegedly took jewelry from a dresser drawer.<\/p>\n “While [Ladell] was in the bedroom with the patient, a family member walked in and found [Ladell] going through a dresser drawer while holding jewelry in her hand,” investigators wrote in court documents. “[Ladell] commented, ‘it’s nice to look at the things of the people you love before you lose them.'”<\/p>\n After that, detectives say Ladell was told to leave the home, and police were later notified. The jewelry is estimated to be $10,000 in value.<\/p>\n Dig deeper:<\/p>\n “A records check of [Ladell] revealed she [had] sold approximately 130 items to a pawn shop between [May 22, 2024]-[Sept. 5, 2025],” read a portion of the court documents. “All items were jewelry, with the exception of a few firearms.”<\/p>\n Investigators said Ladell, who was fired on Aug. 1, 2025, had access to multiple patients. The investigation also revealed that Ladell sold jewelry to a pawn shop in Phoenix on July 26 and 28, 2025.<\/p>\n What they’re saying:<\/p>\n Police said during a post-Miranda<\/strong><\/a> interview with Ladell, she admitted to caring for a patient at his private home when she found a ring on the bathroom floor and a ring in a box that was located in the closet. Both were taken and subsequently sold at the pawn shop.<\/p>\n “[Ladell] explained she needed money, and has a Percocet addiction,” read a portion of the court documents.<\/p>\n What’s next:<\/p>\n Ladell, per investigators, is accused of one count of theft, two counts of trafficking stolen property, and a count of possessing narcotic drugs.<\/p>\n A judge has ordered Ladell be released on her own recognizance. According to<\/a> Cornell Law School’s Legal Information Institute, this means a person is released, pending trial, without having to post bail.<\/p>\n A preliminary hearing has been scheduled for January 27.<\/p>\n The Source:<\/b> Information for this article was gathered from court documents related to the case.<\/p>\n Crime and Public Safety<\/a>Phoenix<\/a>News<\/a> <\/p>\n","protected":false},"excerpt":{"rendered":"article Latisha Amina Ladell (Maricopa County Sheriff’s Office) PHOENIX – A woman has been arrested in Phoenix, according…\n","protected":false},"author":3,"featured_media":504959,"comment_status":"","ping_status":"","sticky":false,"template":"","format":"standard","meta":{"footnotes":""},"categories":[5131],"tags":[5229,5643,1587,6082,1588,50,1589,67,586,132,5230,68,2969],"class_list":{"0":"post-504958","1":"post","2":"type-post","3":"status-publish","4":"format-standard","5":"has-post-thumbnail","7":"category-phoenix","8":"tag-america","9":"tag-arizona","10":"tag-az","11":"tag-crime-publicsafety","12":"tag-maricopa-county","13":"tag-news","14":"tag-phoenix","15":"tag-united-states","16":"tag-united-states-of-america","17":"tag-unitedstates","18":"tag-unitedstatesofamerica","19":"tag-us","20":"tag-usa"},"share_on_mastodon":{"url":"https:\/\/pubeurope.com\/@us\/115868066573939832","error":""},"_links":{"self":[{"href":"https:\/\/www.europesays.com\/us\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/posts\/504958","targetHints":{"allow":["GET"]}}],"collection":[{"href":"https:\/\/www.europesays.com\/us\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/posts"}],"about":[{"href":"https:\/\/www.europesays.com\/us\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/types\/post"}],"author":[{"embeddable":true,"href":"https:\/\/www.europesays.com\/us\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/users\/3"}],"replies":[{"embeddable":true,"href":"https:\/\/www.europesays.com\/us\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/comments?post=504958"}],"version-history":[{"count":0,"href":"https:\/\/www.europesays.com\/us\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/posts\/504958\/revisions"}],"wp:featuredmedia":[{"embeddable":true,"href":"https:\/\/www.europesays.com\/us\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/media\/504959"}],"wp:attachment":[{"href":"https:\/\/www.europesays.com\/us\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/media?parent=504958"}],"wp:term":[{"taxonomy":"category","embeddable":true,"href":"https:\/\/www.europesays.com\/us\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/categories?post=504958"},{"taxonomy":"post_tag","embeddable":true,"href":"https:\/\/www.europesays.com\/us\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/tags?post=504958"}],"curies":[{"name":"wp","href":"https:\/\/api.w.org\/{rel}","templated":true}]}}