A Lexington, Ky., woman, Abigail Hall, 51, was sentenced to 60 months in prison for tampering with a consumer product. According to her plea agreement, between January 2023 and August 2023, Hall worked as a contract registered nurse at several facilities in Kentucky, including a healthcare facility in Lawrenceburg, Ky., that focused on care for the elderly and infirm. Hall admitted that on August 27, 2023, she took morphine that had been prescribed for three patients that she was treating at the healthcare facility, all of whom had significant disease and pain concerns. Hall replaced the stolen morphine with water and blue food coloring, to resemble the real medication. Ultimately, Hall took at least seven syringes of stolen morphine and administered the tampered morphine to at least one of the patients. Under federal law, Hall must serve 85 percent of her prison sentence. Upon her release from prison, she will be under the supervision of the US Probation Office for three years.
