Attorney General Steve Marshall announced the arrest of Paige Taylor Smith on charges that she stole from residents of a Shelby County nursing home while she was employed as the facility’s business office manager. Smith, 57, a resident of Alabaster, is charged with two counts of theft of property first degree, a class B felony. The Attorney General’s Medicaid Fraud Control Unit investigated the case after the facility reported the theft to the Alabama Department of Public Health. The charges against Smith allege that she initiated unauthorized electronic withdrawals from the victims’ checking accounts in an amount over $2,500 to pay the lease on her personal residence. In addition, Smith is alleged to have used the victims’ debit cards for unauthorized ATM cash withdrawals at various locations in an amount exceeding $2,500.
