Austin woman gets stayed sentence after being convicted in theft of jewelry

Published 10:11 am Friday, March 31, 2017

A 31-year-old Austin woman accused of stealing jewelry from two residents at an Austin care facility has been sentenced to five years of supervised probation.

Sarahann Caroline Beck-Iaquinto was sentenced Thursday in Mower County District Court for felony Theft-Take/Use/Transfer Movable Property Without Consent.

She must also meet 21 conditions of the probation and complete 40 hours of community service.

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She was arrested Sept. 2, 2016, after Austin police investigated a report of two gold rings being stolen from an elderly female resident at the Cedars of Austin memory care unit. Small amounts of money were also reported stolen from two other residents.

Police eventually narrowed the list of suspects to two former employees, and Beck-Iaquinto, who was a current employee at the facility. A search of an automated pawn system found that she had recently sold three gold rings to a Burnsville pawn shop.

With the help of the victim’s relatives, officers identified two rings sold to the shop; the third ring was also traced to a Cedars resident.

Beck-Iaquinto had entered a guilty plea in December; two other charges, felony possession of stolen property and gross misdemeanor theft, were dismissed.