A medical technician has been charged with stealing from a “vulnerable” patient at a troubled local assisted living facility.
Alonte McCaster, 30, of Fruitland Park, is facing charges of exploitation of the elderly and theft following her arrest Monday by Lady Lake police.
The daughter of a patient at Lady Lake Senior Living on County Road 466 had installed surveillance video cameras in her mother’s room at the assisted living facility. The daughter received an alert on Sunday of suspicious motion in her mother’s room. When the daughter viewed the video, she saw an employee of the facility searching through her mother’s nightstand. The daughter went to the assisted living facility and found that $47 was missing from her mother’s nightstand.
The daughter reported what had happened to the administration at Lady Lake Senior Living and showed them still images from the surveillance footage. Administrators were able to identify McCaster in the photos…