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Security involved in sting to catch harassing doctor
Healthcare Security Weekly, December 12, 2005
Hospital security worked with St. Louis police to identify a man who was leaving anonymous, sexually graphic phone messages with women in the area, according to the St. Louis Dispatch.
Police realized all the phone calls were being made from the DePaul Health Center in Bridgeton, MO, so they asked hospital security for help in tracking down the man making the phone calls.
The hospital installed surveillance cameras and pulled phone records and eventually the sting operation led them to Donald A. Patterson, a former optometrist.
Patterson was not associated with the hospital in any way and police do not know why he was using the hospital's phone to make the calls, but security caught him in the act and police charged him with 34 counts of harassment.
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