California Nursing Home Residents Left to Suffer After Nurse Reportedly Steals Pain Medications
Marlene Delp
Muliple defenseless nursing home residents were left to suffer in pain after a nurse caring for them reportedly stole their pain medications.
Marlene Delp was arrested and charged in August 2010 on suspicion of stealing medications from almost twenty residents of The Terraces of Roseville, a California nursing home facility. The owner of The Terraces at Roseville suspected that Delp was stealing resident medications and alerted local police, who began an investigation.
Police searched the apartment in which Delp resided at The Terraces and found a variety of medication prescribed to 28 different people, 19 of whom were facility residents. Reportedly, she was replacing the residents' painkillers with over-the-counter medications.
She has been released from jail and a restraining order forbids her from working at the facility.
