Tarrant County assisted living company under investigation after alleged caregiver abuse

The Arlington Police Department has arrested a woman and is searching for more unlicensed community living homes following reports of alleged abuse, neglect, theft, and fraud toward clients throughout Tarrant County.

Authorities said the homes were run by 49-year-old Regla "Su" Becquer, who owned "Love and Caring for People LLC."

Arlington Police said its Behavioral Health Law Enforcement Unit has been investigating the company over the last few months. The company is supposed to provide supervised personal care for adults.

The investigation was prompted by several allegations of neglect, theft, fraud, and abuse that have been linked to Becquer and her company's assisted living homes.

Police said under Texas law, it is not illegal to run unlicensed community care homes in which clients pay to live and receive care in a group setting.

Becquer and her staff are accused of failing to provide adequate care to the clients and preventing them from seeking medical attention. Investigators also believe the staff tried to cut off all communication between the clients and their families, using the clients' debit cards to make purchases without their knowledge or consent. They are also accused of keeping the belongings of dead clients, including phones and cars.

"And they misused this information on wills, on credit card applications, and to obtain things such as vehicles," said Lt. Kimberly Harris with Arlington PD.

Arlington police said investigators also believed staff would drug clients each night with a narcotic and that they didn’t provide items like wheelchairs to clients with disabilities – leaving one man scarred from having to crawl around a home where he was living.

"We need to address these invisible victims," Harris said. "Because that’s what they are."

Becquer was arrested and charged with abandoning/endangering an individual in imminent danger of bodily injury. She is booked at the Tarrant County Jail on a $750,000 bond.

Arlington Police

Michael Shults lives on Woodbrook Street in Arlington. He told NBC 5 that he’s known something was not right about the house across the street from his since December when he first saw Becquer and others moving in.

"For one thing, they cleaned the house out," Becquer said. "They dumped all the furniture that was in there, and it got thrown away."

Shults said he recently saw paramedics take an elderly man from the home in an ambulance.

Weeks earlier, a man having a medical emergency came to his house late at night for help.

"He came knocking on my door and couldn’t speak English," Shults said. "He needed a ride to the hospital, so we took him to Arlington Memorial."

Arlington police now say this home was one of five unlicensed community care homes in Tarrant County run by Becquer.

Arlington Police have identified properties connected to Love and Caring for People LLC in Arlington, Mansfield, and Grand Prairie.

• 1210 Woodbrook Street in Arlington
• 7411 Lake Whitney Drive in Arlington
• 7419 Fossil Creek Drive in Arlington
• 2059 Turtle Cove Drive in Mansfield
• 1852 Hidden Brook Drive in Grand Prairie

Officers are asking the public to help them find more homes that may be under Becquer's company. They would also like to speak with current or past Love and Caring for People LLC clients and their family members.

More charges are expected to be added as more information becomes available, and the investigation into Love and Caring for People LLC is still ongoing.

NBC 5 spoke to a person connected with Becquer's family, asking them for a response to the allegations against Becquer. We are waiting to hear back.

Anyone with information is asked to call a special hotline number set up by Arlington PD and the Tarrant County District Attorney's office: 817-575-3230.