Incident 33863

A former WakeMed Hospital nurse is charged with embezzling oxycodone from the hospital from late January through the beginning of July.

The nurse turned herself in Monday at the Wake County Detention Center after hospital police swore out a warrant accusing her of embezzlement of a controlled substance by an employee of a company licensed to have it.

The warrant stated that the nurse took “numerous dosage units” of the drug oxycodone, converting it to her own use.

The charge does not specify what police believe the nurse did with the oxycodone they say she stole.

A spokeswoman for the WakeMed network said the nurse worked at the Raleigh campus from January 2010 until this month.

The nurse also has worked for the Wake County Department of Human Services since May 2015, county spokeswoman Kerry McComber said.