"A Massachusetts-based nurse pleaded not guilty Friday to a charge related to allegedly replacing a hospice patient's oxycodone with a household cleaner. Lori Robertson, of Salem, New Hampshire, worked at a long-term care and rehabilitation facility in Amesbury, according to court documents. Around March 31, Robertson removed liquid oxycodone from a non-verbal hospice and dementia patient's prescription bottle with a syringe and replaced it with a household cleaner, federal authorities allege."
""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 charging documents state. She was released from custody on probation with the conditions of not contacting victims or witnesses, not using alcohol or other substances, submitting to a drug test, and undergoing a substance abuse treatment program, according to court documents."
A Massachusetts-based nurse, Lori Robertson of Salem, New Hampshire, pleaded not guilty to a federal charge of tampering with a consumer product after federal authorities allege she replaced liquid oxycodone in a non-verbal hospice and dementia patient's prescription bottle with a household cleaner around March 31. Robertson worked at a long-term care and rehabilitation facility in Amesbury. Federal charges assert she used a syringe to remove the Schedule II controlled substance and substitute a cleaner, acting with reckless disregard for risk of death or bodily injury. Robertson was released on probation with conditions and is scheduled to reappear in court on Nov. 24.
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