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Lisa Tarr, 33, of St. Petersburg, Fla., pleaded guilty to four counts of unlawfully obtaining controlled substances by fraud, deception, and subterfuge at a Boston court, the US Attorney for Massachusetts said.
Tarr admitted to stealing medication when she was a nursing student working at a Boston-area hospital in 2018 when she took fentanyl and injected it into her veins in 2018, the prosecutor said. She told investigators that she stole an IV bag with fentanyl from a patient in 2020 at another hospital.
She also took the narcotic hydromorphone and several syringes from a locked drug cabinet at that second hospital, the prosecutor said. Officials didn't release the names of the hospital.
A judge will sentence her in February. She faces up to four years in prison for each charge and a fine of $250,000, the US Attorney's Office said.
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