BELLEVILLE, Ill. (AP) — A nursing assistant has pleaded guilty to lying to police during their search for a man who walked away from an assisted living center and spent nearly two days in a southern Illinois ravine.
Sixty-one-year-old Bridgett D. Williams pleaded guilty to obstructing justice and was sentenced to two years of probation.
The Belleville News Democrat reports Williams was accused of lying to police and leading them in the wrong direction in September 2020 during their search for a 69-year-old man who was a resident at an assisted living center where she worked. He was found “barely conscious” in a deep ravine where he had spent nearly two days.
