A caretaker who worked at a Villages assisted living facility was arrested after allegedly helping herself to a blind woman’s bank account.
The son of a 78-year-old woman at Sumter Place assisted living facility discovered more than $4,000 in mysterious charges to his mother’s account between March and November of last year.
The charges included four monthly car payments of $342.71 for a 2007 Hyundai Sonata at Dealer Services in Leesburg, seven monthly car insurance payments, as well as payments to SECO, DirecTV and Compass Self Storage, according to an arrest report from the Sumter County Sheriff’s Office.
The woman, who is legally blind, remembered a caretaker named “Mesha” who had spent a lot of time in her room at the assisted living facility on County Road 466A.
A check of the facility’s records led to 26-year-old Normesha Quantae Williams of Wildwood, who worked at Sumter Place from Nov. 9, 2016 to May 9, 2017.
She was arrested on multiple charges of fraud and larceny on Thursday at her home.
She was booked at the Sumter County Detention Center. Bond was set at $82,000.
She had been arrested this past December on charges of marijuana possession and destroying evidence.
She also had been arrested in 2014 on a charge of larceny.
In 2016, a maintenance worker was arrested at Sumter Place in the theft of Oxycodone from a resident.