NEW JERSEY STATE BRIEFS: Owners indicted, state closes seniors' home

Press of Atlantic City, The (NJ)

Author: From our wire services

TRENTON / Owners indicted, state closes seniors' home

The state closed a Waldwick home for the elderly Friday, a day after its owners were indicted for the alleged neglect of a senior citizen in their Rockland County, N.Y., boarding home.

The New Jersey Department of Health and Senior Services removed the final three residents from the Shannon House Rest Home on Friday, citing a lack of supervision because the owners were in the Rockland County Jail.

The Montvale couple, Maureen and Michael Culhane, were charged Thursday with locking an 87-year-old woman in a room in their Pearl River, N.Y., boarding home.

A week earlier, New Jersey investigators shut down another of their boarding homes for the elderly, the Hillas Vale Guest Lodge in Montvale, because of allegedly unsanitary conditions.

The Culhanes, who have pleaded not guilty to the New York charges, were still being held Saturday on $25,000 bail each.