JACKSONVILLE: Retirement communities and skilled nursing homes imply a level of elevated safety in their commercial pitch to prospective customers. But evidence is mounting that age-apartheid compounds are increasingly becoming soft crime targets and the care sector is trashing its reputation by doing nothing to effectively counter the growing threat:
60. A man has been charged with breaking into units in a retirement community.
Police say he broke into a 92-year-old woman’s unit, searching the home after claiming to be a maintenance worker, then leaving without taking anything.
The man then allegedly returned to the same retirement community and broke into another unit, which was occupied by an 85-year-old woman and an 85-year-old man.
Police say the man stole cash from the unit, and when confronted by the couple again claimed to be a maintenance worker.