A Tarrant County court has sentenced Regla “Su” Becquer to 30 years in prison after she pleaded guilty to financial elder abuse, endangerment, and criminal negligent homicide tied to a network of unlicensed boarding homes she ran across North Texas.

Becquer owned and operated Love and Caring for People LLC, a company that claimed to provide supervised daily care for vulnerable adults who did not qualify for licensed group home placement.

Arlington police arrested Becquer in 2024 after the department's Behavioral Health Law Enforcement Unit opened an investigation following complaints of physical abuse, theft, neglect, and fraud across five separate properties she operated.

Officers removed residents from the homes, and several required immediate hospitalization for severe malnutrition and untreated medical conditions, according to court records.

In one case detailed in the records, a woman with cerebral palsy was placed on a mattress on the floor instead of the bed she had been promised, and caretakers allegedly left her sitting in soiled diapers for days.

When she asked to leave, staff reportedly gave her an unprescribed, mint-flavored liquid medication to keep her sedated.

Arlington Police Lieutenant Kimberly Harris, who commands the Behavioral Health Law Enforcement Unit, said wheelchair-bound residents were also denied their wheelchairs and forced to crawl across the floor until their skin was scraped and injured.

Investigators additionally found that staff withheld medical attention, cut off communication between tenants and their families, drained residents' bank accounts through unauthorized debit transactions, and took possession of deceased clients' property.

Detectives also traced how Becquer gained ownership of a home on Woodbrook Street through a single-sentence handwritten will, signed just 19 days before the previous owner died.

Under the plea agreement, Becquer received 18 years for financial elder abuse, 10 years for endangering a vulnerable adult, and two years for criminal negligent homicide, with the sentences running concurrently toward the 30-year total, and a separate murder charge was formally waived as part of the deal.

The case was part of a broader, year-long media investigation called “Unlicensed and Unchecked” that exposed oversight gaps and resident deaths across unlicensed boarding homes statewide.

Those findings helped drive new Texas laws that took effect in September 2025, making it a criminal offense, rather than only a civil violation, to operate an unlicensed assisted living or boarding facility.

The same reforms now require paid senior placement agents to disclose pending complaints and bar them from referring clients to unlicensed homes when a licensed option exists.

The Texas Health and Human Services Commission, which licenses assisted living and personal care facilities statewide, allows families to check a facility's license status and complaint history before signing a care agreement.

Arlington residents with concerns about a possible unlicensed care facility can report it to the Arlington Police Department's Behavioral Health Law Enforcement Unit or directly to Texas Health and Human Services.

Elder-abuse advocates in Tarrant County have pointed to the case as an example of why they want state lawmakers to fund more facility inspectors, since civil fines alone rarely stopped repeat violators before the 2025 law took effect.

Family members of former residents have not been publicly identified, and it remains unclear whether restitution will be pursued separately from the criminal sentence.

Becquer's sentencing closes a criminal case that began with a single welfare check in 2024 and grew into a broader reckoning over how unlicensed care facilities were allowed to operate in North Texas for years.

City officials have not announced any Arlington-specific follow-up inspections, though the Behavioral Health Law Enforcement Unit says it continues to field tips about suspected unlicensed facilities within city limits.

Anyone placing a family member in a boarding home or personal care setting is encouraged to ask directly whether the facility holds a current state license before signing any agreement or handing over financial information.