Local News in Brief : Jail in Care Facility Case
A Harbor City woman was sentenced Tuesday to 90 days in County Jail for operating two illegal board and care facilities, including one where investigators found three elderly patients tied to their beds.
Sonia Nelson, 47, was sentenced by Los Angeles Municipal Judge Juelann Cathey after pleading no contest to three counts of operating an unlicensed board and care facility and one count of endangering a dependent adult. The misdemeanor charges stemmed from Nelson’s operation of two unlicensed board and care homes in single-family dwellings in the Harbor City area.
Nelson pleaded no contest last month in a separate case to four misdemeanor charges stemming from her operation of a third unlicensed board and care facility in a single-family dwelling in Lomita. She was sentenced to 90 days in jail, a term that will run concurrently with Tuesday’s jail sentence.
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