Florida Nurse Tiffany Acuna Stole Alzheimer’s Patient’s Identity for Plastic Surgery, Police Say

A Florida nurse got accused of using the identity of an 88-year-old Alzheimer’s patient to pay for more than $7,000 in plastic surgery.

Theft and fraud are the charges brought against Tiffany Acuna, a 31-year-old certified in-home nursing assistant. According to Daily Mail, she opened a credit card in the patient’s name to pay for the procedure.

When the victim, a Deltona resident, received a credit card bill in the mail for $7,160.11 on April 4th, the Volusia County Sheriff’s Office launched an investigation. According to the woman’s husband, the bill was for a credit card that no one had applied for.

The transaction was made on November 1, 2022, for several cosmetic procedures at Moon Plastic Surgery, according to the investigation. Acuna, also known as Tiffany Kent, was the client, according to the police. According to the sheriff’s office, Acuna was employed as a nurse by American In-Home Care until April 4th.

Acuna denied obtaining a credit card in the victim’s name and claimed to have never undergone plastic surgery when authorities contacted her. Later, she contacted the patient’s husband to arrange a meeting to set up a repayment plan.

She brought $1,500 in cash and a loan agreement contract to the victim’s house, according to the police, but deputies were waiting to arrest her when she got there. She told the investigators that the patient had given her consent to use her identity to pay for the procedure.

Acuna got accused of grand theft and fraudulent ID use without the victim’s permission, who was 60 years old or older.

After being arrested on Thursday at the Volusia County Branch Jail, she got later freed after posting $10,000 bail.