Attorney General Matthew J. Platkin, the Division of Criminal Justice (DCJ), and the Office of the Insurance Fraud Prosecutor (OIFP) announced that the director of nursing at a rehabilitation center in Ocean County, New Jersey, was arraigned on charges of assaulting one of the facility’s residents and attempting to cover it up. Patricia Linda-Ahono, 59, of Irvington, New Jersey, was indicted by a state grand jury on July 23, 2025, with two counts of aggravated assault (2nd and 3rd degree), neglect of an elderly or disabled adult (3rd degree), tampering with witnesses (3rd degree), assault on an institutionalized elderly person (4th degree), and falsifying records (4th degree). She was arrested July 24, 2025, and arraigned on Oct. 6, 2025. According to documents filed in this case, on June 24, 2023, a physical altercation occurred between Director of Nursing Patricia Lindo-Ahono and a resident, E.N.J., at Crystal Lake Rehabilitation and Healthcare Center, in Bayville, New Jersey. A nurse recorded a video of the incident that took place in a hallway on the 5th floor of the facility. The video allegedly shows Lindo-Ahono hitting the victim with a broom and the victim’s left hand dripping blood. Lindo-Ahono allegedly says, “Call (staff member) (inaudible) before I kill this man.”