CNA Charged for Stealing Opiates from Nursing Home Patients

A certified nursing assistant at a skilled nursing facility in northwestern Milwaukee is accused of stealing prescription painkillers, including oxycodone hydrochloride and morphine sulfate, from her workplace and selling them.

She met with a confidential informant (CI) for the Drug Enforcement Agency (DEA) on 4 separate occasions to sell oxycodone and morphine. She told police that she worked as a CNA at Birchwood and that the pills she sold had been lying around, despite telling the CI during their dealings that she had been shorting patients’ dosages.