GREELEY, Colo.—A former hospice nurse accused of using a cancer patient’s name to buy 2,250 pain pills and other prescription drugs has been charged with identity theft.
Twenty-nine-year-old Marguerite Irene Furgerson of Milliken was arrested Thursday. She also faces a charge of obtaining a controlled substance by fraud.
Court records show the patient’s doctor called to ask the patient why she was buying 75 tablets of Vicodin every four days, and police worked with Hospice and Palliative Care of Northern Colorado to investigate.
An affidavit says Furgerson told Greeley police she was prescribed Vicodin after having surgery about six months ago and became addicted.
Furgerson declined to comment Saturday. She is free on $10,000 bond.
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Information from: Greeley Daily Tribune,
