Woman stole purse from mourner at I.E. cemetery, SBSD says

A Corona woman arrested for allegedly stealing a purse from a vehicle while the car’s owner was visiting a grave in the Inland Empire.

Just before 8 p.m. on Sept. 13, a woman visiting a gravesite at Green Acres Memorial Park & Mortuary in Bloomington had her purse stolen from her vehicle, the San Bernardino County Sheriff’s Department said in a news alert .

The thief “took the victim’s credit cards and made multiple fraudulent purchases in the Fontana area before the victim was able to deactivate the stolen credit cards,” authorities added.

Two days later, detectives identified 32-year-old Corona resident Emily Hernandez as the suspected thief, and she was arrested on Sept. 17, authorities said.

Not only was Hernandez on felony probation at the time, but the 2020 Jaguar F-Pace she was driving “was found to be an unreported stolen vehicle” that she had acquired “using identity theft at a car dealership in Ontario,” the release said.

She was also implicated in a similar alleged purse theft at Montecito Memorial Park & Mortuary earlier this month.

Hernandez is being held at the West Valley Detention Center. She was due to appear in Rancho Superior Court Tuesday morning and in San Bernardino Superior Court Tuesday afternoon on multiple charges related to several incidents.

Jail records show multiple counts of grand theft, vehicle theft, theft under false pretenses, burglary and using someone else’s bank access card, among other charges.

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