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Hospital worker charged with selling stolen medical equipment
Healthcare Security Weekly, August 8, 2005
Authorities in Indiana say a nurse's aide from Evansville's St. Mary's Medical Center stole more than $200,000 worth of hospital equipment from the facility and sold some of it on eBay, according to the Associated Press.
Brian Pickens allegedly used his access to the surgical distribution center to take boxes of supplies that vendors gave to the hospital for surgeons to evaluate.
The medical center fired Pickens the same day the courts charged him with one count of theft and released him on $1,000 bond.
One of the vendors detected the thefts when it discovered one of its spine sets, valued at $116,000, was missing. The vendor found the set on eBay and alerted authorities, who then tracked down Pickens by his eBay user name.
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