elder abuse

Man admits to taking silver bars from safe of elderly man he was caring for — Floyd Cowan III #MtZion

10/15/202110/15/2021 Jason Steen

64-year-old Floyd Cowan III is free on a $20,000 bond after admitting to police he took silver bars and coins from the safe of an elderly man he was caring for. The victim’s son caught him in the act of removing more items from the safe after the initial theft. Cowan was able to get into the safe by ‘resetting’ the locking code to factory settings with assistance from a local hardware store. He told a pawn shop, which gave him $5,600 for the $7,000 worth of silver items, that his grandfather gave him the silver bars and coins. Cowan is an in-home worker for the elderly, and well-beloved at the Mt. Zion church in Nashville, where his wife, Princess Cowan, is an Elder.

Impaired elderly man found locked in bedroom full of urine, no food or running water.

01/27/2019 Jason Steen

‘Caretaker’ Colin Watts arrested after Nashville Fire Department’s Medic 11 unit forced entry into a home to rescue a man held against his will, after detectives made contact with the impaired adult male through a bedroom window. The man told detectives he was locked in the small room, which reeked of urine. He also told detectives he was supposed to be on insulin, but his caretakers wouldn’t give it to him, and he needed to go to the hospital.