The director of nursing at an Ocean County rehabilitation center was accused earlier this year of assaulting one of the facility’s residents and attempting to cover it up, authorities announced Wednesday.
Patricia Linda-Ahono, 59, of Irvington, was indicted by a state grand jury on July 23 on charges of second and third-degree aggravated assault, third-degree neglect of an elderly or disabled adult, third-degree tampering with witnesses, fourth-degree assault on an institutionalized elderly person and fourth-degree falsifying, according to a statement from the New Jersey Attorney General’s Office.
She was arrested July 24 and arraigned on Monday…