INDIANAPOLIS — A convicted sex offender is accused of using someone else's nursing license numbers to work in hospice and elder care.
Zachary Hartley is charged with, among other crimes, failure to register as a sex offender, forgery, practicing nursing without a license and identity deception.
Court records show Noblesville police got a call from Compassion Hospice in early April, letting them know something wasn't adding up about a recent hire.
Charging documents detail how Zachary Hartley applied for an LPN job with Compassion Hospice in March 2024 through the online job site Indeed and got hired after an online interview.
Hartley was only a few days into his new job, court documents detail, when Noblesville police got a call from Compassion Hospice, telling investigators that they had just received a phone call with disturbing allegations.
According to charging records, the call came from staff at Wellbrooke, a senior living facility. Wellbrooke's staff told the staff at Compassion Hospice that Hartley used to work for them and questions had came up there about his nursing license and whether Hartley was possibly using someone else's license number.
In court records, Noblesville police say they located two men, both named Zachary, whose license number Hartley had used, passing it off as his own, explaining to employers, the last name on the license wasn't Hartley because Hartley was his married name.
The Hamilton County Prosecutor's Office wouldn't comment on the specifics of the case, but said caring for the sick and elderly is very important and the Hamilton County Prosecutor's Office would continue to hold people accountable when they endanger or harm vulnerable people.
13News reached out both Wellbrooke and Compassion Hospice. Neither facility would comment on the case or the charges against him.