A Villager’s iPhone was stolen while he was a patient at Villages Rehab.
The wife of the 76-year-old Village of Virginia Trace man spoke to her husband on his iPhone 6 Plus on the afternoon of April 6 when he was a patient at Villages Rehab, according to an incident report from the Lady Lake Police Department. She tried to call him later that day, but he did not answer. She tried to call him the following morning, but still did not get an answer.
She went to the Villages Rehab, located at 900 County Road 466 in Lady Lake, to try to locate the iPhone. The couple’s son, who lives in Texas, tried to locate the phone through a “Find my iPhone” application but found it was shut off and the battery was dead. The wife and nursing staff searched the room and could not find the phone.
The police department has obtained time sheets for 14 Villages Rehab employees who worked the day the iPhone went missing.
Police have previously been summoned to the Villages Rehab:
• In 2017, a bulletin was issued for a Villages Rehab certified nursing assistant who stole a credit card from a sedated 81-year-old patient. The CNA was tracked down after a string of purchases on the woman’s credit card.
• That same year, a Villages Rehab employee was arrested after reportedly threatening another woman with a box cutter in the facility’s parking lot. Those charges were later dropped.
• In 2016, a dead woman’s iPad was reported stolen at Villages Rehab.
• In 2014, a 19-year-old housekeeper was arrested after stealing an iPhone 6 from a patient at Villages Rehab.
