Attorney General Steve Marshall announced the conviction of Samantha Noel Kelley, 32, of Greenville for the theft of 638 narcotics pills from a Georgiana nursing home where she had been employed as a licensed practical nurse. Kelley appeared before the Butler County Circuit Court on June 9, 2022, and pleaded guilty to four counts of second-degree theft of property, a class C felony, as charged in the indictment returned against her by a Butler County Grand Jury on September 14, 2021. The Attorney General’s Medicaid Fraud Control Unit conducted an investigation after being contacted by the Georgiana Police Department. The investigation determined that Kelley, while employed at Georgiana Health and Rehabilitation, had diverted 638 narcotics pills, including Hydrocodone, Oxycodone, Tramadol and Lorazepam, from nursing home residents for whom the medications were intended. The thefts occurred between November 5, 2020, and January 19, 2021.
