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SYRAC– USE, N.Y. — The state has suspended the nursing license of a Cicero woman with a long history of stealing drugs and cash from her employers.
Kelly Lynn Griffin’s license to work as a licensed practical nurse has been suspended for at least three months and she’s been fined $500.
Griffin is also known as Kelly Lynn Krupp and Kelly Lynn Klock. This is the second time she’s been disciplined by the state Education Department, which licenses nurses.
In a signed consent agreement, Griffin admitted she stole a doctor’s wallet in 2009 from a plastic surgery office in Manlius where she used to work. Griffin took $2,700 from the wallet, according to a police report. As a result, she was convicted of petit larceny in Manlius town court and sentenced to a one-year conditional discharge.
The state Education Department said Griffin also stole Oxycodone, a prescription painkiller, for her own use last year while working at James Square nursing home in Syracuse, and was convicted of petit larceny in 2015 for stealing hydrocodone, also a painkiller, from someone’s jacket pocket.
The state fined her $500 in 2007 after she was convicted of forging prescriptions she took from CNY Cosmetic Surgery in Clay.
The state automatically charges nurses and other licensed health professionals with professional misconduct if they are convicted of crimes.
The state will not let Griffin return to practice until a doctor or other health professional determines she is fit to do so.