A 65-year-old man has been placed on probation after harassing care center personnel following his mother’s death.
Michael George Pallotto entered a plea of no contest to a charge of stalking this past week in Sumter County Court. He has been placed on probation for six months.
His mother, a resident of the Village of Sunbury of Glenbrook, died Dec. 29 at Cornerstone Hospice in The Villages. Pallotto was evidently having a difficult time processing his mother’s death and began repeatedly contacting Buffalo Crossings Rehab Center, where his mother had been prior to her move to hospice, according to an arrest report from the sheriff’s office. Pallotto repeatedly sought out one man in particular, yelling and cussing at the employee while blaming him for his mother’s death…