Palm Desert In-Home Caregiver to be Arraigned on Burglary Charge

By City News Service, image via Shutterstock

A Palm Desert woman is scheduled to be arraigned Tuesday on charges she stole thousands of dollars in cash and valuables from clients for whom she worked as an in-home caregiver.

Janace Nicole Jingles, 31, was ordered June 2 to stand trial on a single charge of burglary, with a judge concluding there was not enough evidence to proceed to trial on an embezzlement count.

Investigators looking into a series of incidents dating back to January 2014 received a complaint from a 94-year-old Rancho Mirage resident, who reported that cash and a bracelet worth about $10,000 had gone missing shortly after Jingles began working for her as an in-home caregiver two months earlier, sheriff’s officials said.

Deputies from the Palm Desert Burglary Suppression Unit served a search warrant in March at Jingles’ home in the 74500 block of Avenue 42, in Palm Desert, where they allegedly found the bracelet, other stolen property and evidence related to identity theft, sheriff’s Sgt. Aaron Eller said at the time.

Jingles previously was arrested in January on suspicion of identity theft and elder abuse involving another in-home care client, Eller said. She remains free on $30,000 bail.