BURNSVILLE, N.C. — An assisted living facility in North Carolina was shut down last month and two employees were arrested for being asleep when a resident required assistance after falling, authorities said.
According to a news release from the Yancey County Sheriff’s Office, on April 17 deputies responded to Southern Living for Seniors, an assisted living facility in Burnsville. Deputies went to the facility after a 911 call from a resident, who asked for assistance to help lift his roommate, who had fallen and had been on the floor for 45 minutes, WLOS-TV reported.
The resident told the 911 dispatcher that he could not find any employees to help, WYFF-TV reported.
After searching the facility, deputies found two employees, Brittany Michelle Crowder and James David Hudson, sleeping in a vacant resident’s room, the sheriff’s office said in its news release. Both employees were found to be in possession of several residents’ narcotic prescription medication, according to the sheriff’s office.
Crowder, 29, of Burnsville, was arrested and charged with larceny by an employee, simple possession of a Schedule II controlled substance, simple possession of a Schedule IV controlled substance, possession of stolen goods, possession of drug paraphernalia, tattooing regulated, and failure to appear on a misdemeanor charge, the sheriff’s office said.
Hudson, 36, of Burnsville, was arrested and charged with larceny by an employee, possession of stolen goods, simple possession of a Schedule II controlled substance, simple possession of a Schedule IV controlled substance and possession of drug paraphernalia, according to the sheriff’s office.
After a report by the Department of Health and Human Services, the facility was shut down because it was non-compliant in many areas, WYFF reported.
The DHHS and the Yancey County Department of Social Services relocated all residents of Southern Living for Seniors to other facilities in the area, according to WLOS.
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