What Happened

Alison Renee Marshall, 45, of Sturgis, Michigan, a registered nurse formerly in the interventional radiology unit of a Kalamazoo hospital, pleaded guilty in May 2022 to tampering with a consumer product involving vials of liquid fentanyl. She admitted removing fentanyl, replacing it with saline and gluing the caps back on in July and August 2020, diverting it for her own use. Testing showed the vials contained 3% or less of the reported fentanyl. Sentencing was scheduled for September 21, 2022, with a maximum of 10 years in prison.

“removed liquid fentanyl and replaced it with saline solution in July and August of 2020”

U.S. Department of Justice / U.S. Attorney's Office press release, May 26, 2022

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