Escambia County Nursing Assistant Arrested for Abuse

Attorney General Bondi’s Office Arrests Escambia County Nursing Assistant for Abuse

On Friday, Attorney General Bondi announced that Antoinette White, a Certified Nursing Assistant formerly employed by Specialty Center of Pensacola, was arrested and charged with striking an elderly resident in the chest. White, an Escambia County resident, was taken into custody by the Attorney General’s Medicaid Fraud Control Unit for battery on a person sixty-five or older. The arrest was made by the Medicaid Fraud Control Unit with assistance from the Escambia County Sheriff’s Office. If convicted, she could receive up to five years imprisonment and a $5,000 fine. The case will be prosecuted by the State Attorney’s Office for the First Judicial Circuit.