Nashua Police photo Katherine Price, 30, of 81 Fisherville Road, Apt. 23, Concord

HUDSON – The case of the home health care worker accused of pilfering more than $27,000 from an elderly and disabled Hudson client is currently on hold pending the rescheduling of the arraignment, which was made necessary by the COVID-19 pandemic.

Katherine Price, 30, of 81 Fisherville Road, Apt. 23, Concord, allegedly used the client’s bank card to make some 89 unauthorized withdrawals and purchases totaling roughly $27,550 over a period of time, according to police reports.

Price was arrested in early March, roughly two weeks after Hudson police Officer Matthew Blazon, who investigated the case, issued an arrest warrant.

She was picked up by State Police in Concord and returned to Hudson for processing on the charges, which include one count each of financial exploitation of an elderly or disabled adult and fraudulent use of a credit card, both Class A felonies, and one count of forgery, a Class B felony, according to police.

She was booked, later released on $140 cash bail and given a March 19 arraignment date, but the proceeding was one of many that had to be postponed when courts were ordered closed due to the pandemic.

The most recent entry on Price’s case summary, which is filed in Hillsborough County Superior Court South, is on June 3, when Attorney Eleftheria Keans signed on as her lawyer after Attorney Michael Davidow withdrew.

Blazon, meanwhile, launched the investigation on Jan. 20, after the alleged victim, an unidentified Hudson woman who is now 79, reported to police that “she was the victim of unauthorized access into her bank accounts (allegedly) by a home health care worker,” police said.

The woman told police Price began caring for her in April 2019, but when the woman went into the hospital for a procedure in December, Price “stopped showing up,” police reports state.

Shortly after being discharged from the hospital later in December, the woman was going over her recent bank statements and “discovered that the funds in her account “had significantly dropped,” according to the reports.

Blazon’s subsequent investigation showed numerous purchases and withdrawals made with the woman’s bank card at several stores and a series of bank and credit union ATMs.

Blazon determined that about $8,550 had been withdrawn at one Hudson bank’s ATM during the month of November.

The alleged victim told Blazon that Price helped her with grocery shopping, and because of her poor eyesight she had Price enter her PIN on the keypad when paying for the groceries.

Come mid-February, according to Blazon’s report, he reached out to Price, who allegedly told him she was not answering his previous calls because “she thought they were spam” calls.

Price agreed to meet with Blazon a couple of days later, Blazon wrote, but she “never showed up to meet with me” and “did not return any of my calls.”

Blazon therefore issued the arrest warrant on which Price was taken into custody in March.

Dean Shalhoup may be reached at 594-1256 or dshalhoup@nashuatelegraph.com.

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