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Housekeeper assaults, robs 83 year old boss for being denied $500 Xmas bonus

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Heather Nelson Brevard County, Florida housekeeper assaults, robs 83 year old employer after denied Christmas bonus.
Heather Nelson Brevard County, Florida housekeeper assaults, robs 83 year old employer after denied Christmas bonus.
Heather Nelson Brevard County, Florida housekeeper assaults, robs 83 year old employer after denied Christmas bonus.
Heather Nelson Brevard County, Florida housekeeper assaults, robs 83 year old employer after denied Christmas bonus.

Heather Nelson, Florida ‘trusted’ housekeeper assaults, robs, assaults 83 year old Brevard County employer after the being denied Christmas bonus. 

A 29-year-old Florida housekeeper robbed and assaulted her 83-year-old employer on Christmas Eve when the elderly woman said she couldn’t afford to pay her once-trusted worker a holiday bonus, authorities said this week.

The alleged incident left the 83-year-old woman shaken, injured and financially exploited, according to a press release from the Brevard County Sheriff’s Office.

Heather Nelson, 29, was arrested on January 7 and now faces a host of felony charges which authorities have described as a cruel and calculated holiday betrayal.

Housekeeper in financial trouble resorts to assaulting, robbing employer 

‘Nelson responded by physically wrenching the victim’s checkbook from her hand, stealing a check from the checkbook, and then, I guess in an effort to ruin other people’s Christmas as well, stole Christmas cards that were set to be mailed out also containing checks,’ Sheriff Wayne Ivey said in a statement.

The housekeeper, whom Ivey repeatedly called a ‘Grinch,’ allegedly grabbed the checkbook with such force that she nearly broke the woman’s wrist.

Nelson then allegedly wrote a check for $1,400 — and used the victim’s credit card to pay her rent and make other purchases, Tod Goodyear, the sheriff’s office’s public information office said. 

‘Based on what she was using the monies for, she was in financial trouble,’ Goodyear explained.

‘Maybe she just saw this as the only way possibly out of it, but to take advantage of our elderly seniors is not what you do.’

Nelson was arrested on Jan. 7 after the check cleared and credit card transactions were posted, Law and Crime reported.

Heather Nelson Brevard County, Florida housekeeper assaults, robs 83 year old employer after denied Christmas bonus.
Heather Nelson Brevard County, Florida housekeeper assaults, robs 83 year old employer after denied Christmas bonus.

‘Since you were so worried about getting your bonus, we had some extra gifts for you, like a keepsake booking photo, a slightly used pair of shower slides and unlimited access to our world-famous one-star dining facility where you can enjoy absolutely nothing you eat,’ Ivey said in the BCSO statement.

Nelson faces a litany of felony charges, including aggravated battery, robbery, forgery, fraud, passing a counterfeit instrument and grand theft, according to court filings reviewed by the outlet.

She was held on a $30,000 bond and released on Jan 9.

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