A trip out of state landed a 79-year-old man in jail after he allegedly left an Alzheimer’s patient home alone in Florida’s Friendliest Hometown without a phone or any supervision.
Gene Trout, a resident of the Village of Poinciana, was booked at the Sumter County Detention Center on a felony charge of neglect of an elderly or disabled adult.
According to an arrest report from the Sumter County Sheriff’s Office, a deputy responded to the residence on the afternoon of Nov. 3 for a welfare check. Dispatchers advised the responding deputy that the check was requested because Trout had reportedly left the state…