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VANCOUVER, British Columbia, March 9 (UPI) -- A suspect has been arrested in a theft from a 91-year-old patient in a Vancouver hospital who was robbed of her rings by a man who offered to clean them.
Tracy Lloyd Caza, 47, has a long criminal record, CTV British Columbia reported.
The victim, Agnes Ulmer, was at Vancouver General Hospital after having a leg amputated. She was sedated when the man entered her room March 2.
Ulmer gave him her rings, including heirlooms that had been in her family for generations and the wedding band her husband placed on her finger 70 years ago. Police had not recovered the rings late Friday.
Caza pulled a similar theft in 2002, stealing rings from a patient in a North Vancouver nursing home, police said. Investigators described him as a "frequent flyer" with a long history of arrests.
"We're looking at someone with a long history of crimes like this. They've just been keeping with that pattern (and) have victimized a lot of elderly people in Vancouver," said Jana McGuinness, a police spokeswoman.
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