A Noblesville nursing aide is facing felony charges of battery resulting in bodily injury to an endangered adult and battery against a disabled person after he allegedly covered the mouth and nose of an 80-year-old nursing home resident and told him to “shut the hell up.”
The accused, Wesley Martin, 39, was arrested Sept. 17. His bail was set at $5,000 and a pretrial conference is set for Nov. 11.
According to court documents, an abuse and neglect investigator for the Indiana Attorney General Medicaid Fraud Control Unit was assigned to investigate allegations of abuse involving a resident at Maple Park Village, a Hamilton County nursing facility, Feb. 27…