Police: Trio kidnaps woman from Modesto hospital

Three people were arrested on suspicion of taking a 95-year-old woman with dementia and heart disease from a Modesto hospital and convincing her to withdraw $1,000 from her bank account.

Modesto Police were alerted Tuesday afternoon when the woman’s social worker called to say the suspects checked her out of the hospital against medical advice, according to Modesto Police spokeswoman Heather Graves.

The suspects, Rosemary Bazan, 38, Salyce Bazan, 19, and Manuel Flores, 38, live in the same southwest Modesto neighborhood as the woman and had befriended her.

After leaving the hospital the suspects went to several fast food restaurants then to a bank where they attempted to cash a large check the elderly woman wrote to one of them. The victim did not have the funds to support the check, so she withdrew a smaller amount – $1,000 – in cash for the suspects, Graves said.

After being contacted by the social worker, officers went to the woman’s house where they found her with the suspects.

Rosemary Bazan, Salyce Bazan and Flores were arrested on suspicion of kidnapping, conspiracy, elder abuse, possession of completed check with intent to defraud and conspiracy.

Graves did not know if the elderly woman was taken back to the hospital after the arrest.

This story was originally published February 9, 2016 at 6:39 PM with the headline "Police: Trio kidnaps woman from Modesto hospital."