Health care aide charged with thefts

Nassau police on Saturday arrested a Rockville Centre woman who worked as a home health care aide and charged her with stealing cash and jewelry from the homes of clients.

Police said that Ashley Minnis, 23, stole an undisclosed amount of jewelry and money from the Oceanside home of a disabled 58-year-old woman and from an 82-year-old woman in Franklin Square. The thefts took place in late 2009, police said.

Police also accused Minnis, who then worked at a Manhasset MRI office, of snatching a wallet containing cash and "personal papers" from a patient there in December 2009.

Minnis was arrested Saturday in Elmont. She faces two counts of third-degree grand larceny and one count of fourth-degree grand larceny.