Assisted living worker stole cash from resident, cops say

Adassa Clark was arrested on Aug. 10

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An employee of Bristol Assisted Living in East Meadow stole money from a 90-year-old female resident who lives there, said Nassau County police.

Adassa Clark, 61, of Hempstead, a medical technologist at the Merrick Avenue assisted living facility, went into the resident’s room to administer medicine on Aug. 3, police said, and removed cash from her pocketbook.

Clark was arrested on Aug. 10 in East Meadow, police said, and was charged with first-degree endangering of an incompetent person and petit larceny. She was scheduled to be arraigned on Aug. 11.

Police are asking anyone who may have also been a victim of this alleged crime to contact Nassau County Crime Stoppers at (800) 244-TIPS.