A woman accused of stealing jewelry from the elderly on an earlier Crime Stoppers has been tracked to New York, but the police do not know her real name.
The woman dresses the part of a nurse to steal jewelry from elderly residents at assisted living homes in at least 10 states.
“Dollar figures? We could be up in the hundreds of thousands if not millions of dollars,” Detective Mark Thomas of the Lexington Police Department told LEX 18’s Kristen Pflum.
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Police in North Carolina, Florida and Lexington showed pictures of the woman on the news. There are 10 states looking for her.
The case took a turn when police in Lake Park, Illinois took a vehicle description and a plate matchup and used a warrant to get a tracking device put on her car.
On Thanksgiving weekend police in New York got the woman, she gave the name Antonia Kweatkowski.
“She had some other documents with her that indicate she’s been going by several different aliases. She had some documents from England, from Poland, so we’re going by names she’s given in the past. Truthfully, we don’t really know who she is,” said Thomas.
Investigators in several states want to talk to Kweatkowski.
No word on when Kentucky will get their chance.
