By Pat Culverhouse

A Shreveport woman has been charged with allegedly taking nearly $3,000 from the bank account of a local elderly woman for whom she had been hired as caretaker.

Tatonya Deshune Mozeke reportedly turned herself in to Minden police investigators Monday after she was charged in an arrest warrant on three counts of access device fraud. She is currently housed in the parish jail on a $10,000 bond.

Investigators said a complaint was filed in November, 2025 by the victim’s son who reported fraudulent transactions on the 97-year-old woman’s bank account. Bank statements reportedly showed transactions in September and October of 2025 totaling $2,748.

During the course of their investigation, detectives learned Mozeke was employed by the son as a caretaker for his mother and reportedly gained his mother’s banking information.

Detectives reportedly found, through search warrant information, that Mozeke used the victim’s banking information to pay her rent at an apartment complex in Shreveport.

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