The former nurse convicted of stealing fentanyl from her workplace at a Lincoln hospital has been sentenced. A Lancaster County Judge sentenced 36-year-old Krista Lierz to three years probation for one count of acquiring a controlled substance by fraud. Lierz pled guilty to the class IV felony on Jan. 29. Prosecutors alleged that Lierz used [...]
A local nurse was arrested after authorities say she stole painkillers for her own use that had been prescribed to patients. Late last year, pharmacy staff at Bon Secours St. Francis Downtown Hospital in Greenville noticed that the number of painkillers pulled from storage by one nurse was abnormally higher than other nurses — sometimes [...]
A former registered nurse with Conway Medical Center has been accused of unlawfully obtaining fentanyl from the hospital, according to the South Carolina Department of Health and Environmental Control. DHEC arrested T. Coyle on Wednesday after Conway Medical Center reached out to the department about a possible fentanyl theft. According to DHEC documents, Coyle was [...]
A former nurse pleaded guilty Monday to stealing fentanyl from a Lincoln hospital. Krista Lierz, 36, initially pleaded not guilty but changed her plea this week, according to court records. A Lancaster County district judge found Lierz, a former nurse at CHI Health St. Elizabeth, guilty of a felony drug charge. CHI Health launched an [...]
A hospital nurse illegally dispensed morphine to a person who died from the dose in Utah, federal prosecutors said. Now the woman, 33, of Sandy, is charged with their death, which happened June 5, the U.S. Attorney’s Office for the District of Utah announced in a Jan. 19 news release. The nurse worked at a [...]
A former Atrium Health employee is accused of stealing fentanyl while she was working at Carolina Medical Center, according to Mecklenburg County court documents. K. Rupert, 26, of Charlotte, was charged Tuesday with felony embezzlement for the incident that allegedly occurred April 2023. The arrest warrant states that while she was a registered nurse, Rupert [...]
More than nine years after 76-year-old Hermina Fletcher died in a Fort Frances hospital, the former nurse who altered her medication administration record to steal morphine for her own addiction has been sentenced to two years imprisonment. Lindsey Coyle, 38, wiped away tears as Justice Pieter Joubert handed down his sentence in a Fort Frances [...]
New Delhi: A tragic case has come to light at Asante Rogue Regional Medical Center in Medford, southern Oregon, United States, where as many as 10 patients are suspected to have died after a nurse allegedly exchanged fentanyl intravenous (IV) drips with tap water. The hospital’s officials alerted the authorities that they suspected a former [...]
A Houston nurse has been arrested and charged after being caught on hospital surveillance cameras stealing painkillers and replacing them with tampered vials of saline solution. According to court documents reviewed by KPRC2, 25-year-old A. McNeilly was arrested on Dec. 26 on three felony counts of Diversion of a Controlled Substance. She is accused [...]
The Hillsborough County Sheriff’s Office has arrested an HCA Florida Brandon Hospital intensive-care unit nurse, accusing her of stealing 17 bags of fentanyl from the hospital. L. Williams, 55, faces 17 charges each of grand theft of a controlled substance and trafficking fentanyl. Deputies say Williams refilled the bags with an unknown substance and put [...]