
Elderly Woman Robbed by Paramedic
Submitted by WDEF News 12 and CNN on July 1, 2008 - 8:23am.
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An elderly woman is outraged after she says a paramedic -- that was supposed to be helping her -- robbed her instead.
Cleveland police say the paramedic reached into the unconscious woman's purse, grabbed her credit cards, and went on a shopping spree.
"I just can't believe somebody like that can do something like that to somebody elderly."
84 YEAR OLD, ELIZABETH KASUNIC, TALKING ABOUT GETTING RIPPED OFF BY THIS WOMAN TIFFANY FORTE, A CLEVELAND EMS PARAMEDIC.
COPS SAY FORTE GOT HER HANDS ON THE VICTIMS CREDIT CARDS, WHEN SHE SHOWED UP TO RUSH KASUNIC TO THE EMERGENCY ROOM, IN AN AMBULANCE.
"Along with taking Mrs. Kasunic out of the door, she says the suspect also came back and grabbed her purse and took that as well."
EVEN THOUGH SHE ALREADY HAD ALL OF THE SENIOR'S MEDICAL INFORMATION.
COPS SAY, FORTE WASTED NO TIME HITTING UP STORES, GOING ON A WILD SHOPPING SPREE, SPENDING MORE THAN A 1,000 BUCKS.
AFTER GETTING OUT OF THE HOSPITAL, A FEW DAYS LATER, KASUNIC SOON REALIZED WHAT HAPPENED.
"I was going to make some bills out, then I noticed two credit cards were missing."
SHE IMMEDIATELY CALLED POLICE, THEY QUICKLY TRACKED DOWN THE GENIUS SHOPOHOLIC AND SLAPPED HER IN CUFFS, TODAY SHE FACED A JUDGE AND WAS LET OUT OF JAIL ON BOND.
FORTE NOW FACING THEFT CHARGES AND HAS BEEN SUSPENDED WITHOUT PAY FROM WORK.
"You just can't do things like that and think you can get away with it. It's a lot of money involved and a lot of headaches involved, headaches I don't need."
The bank has refunded all of the victim's money.
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