A nurse treating a hospice and dementia affected person is accused of tampering with oxycodone, in keeping with the feds who arrested her this week.
Lori Robertson has been charged with one depend of tampering with a client product, reads the court docket submitting from the Massachusetts U.S. Legal professional’s workplace.
The registered nurse licensed within the Bay State labored at a long-term care and rehabilitation facility in Amesbury. The middle supplies long-term power care and post-acute care to sufferers.
Robertson, 65, as a nurse had entry to oxycodone and different opioids prescribed to sufferers on the rehab facility.
“While working at the Rehabilitation Facility, Robertson treated multiple patients, including Patient 1, a non-verbal hospice and dementia patient, who was prescribed oxycodone,” the feds wrote within the indictment.
The alleged incident involving the dementia affected person occurred on March 31 this yr.
“Robertson tampered with the oxycodone by removing oxycodone from the bottle with a syringe and replacing the removed liquid with a household cleaner,” the feds wrote.
The oxycodone, a Schedule II managed substance, was produced exterior of Massachusetts.
“Lori Robertson, with reckless disregard for the risk that another person would be placed in danger of death and bodily injury, and under circumstances manifesting extreme indifference to such risk, did tamper with a consumer product that affected interstate commerce,” the federal indictment reads.
The cost of tampering with a client product can result in a sentence of as much as 10 years in jail, three years of supervised launch, and a positive of as much as $250,000.
Robertson was arraigned on Friday in entrance of Choose Paul Levenson in federal court docket.
She pleaded not responsible, and the feds didn’t transfer for detention — agreeing as a substitute to launch circumstances. These circumstances embrace: no drug or alcohol use; no contact with the alleged sufferer; and no employment by which she will entry prescription meds.
The court docket scheduled an preliminary standing convention for Nov. 24.
