A former traveling nurse pleaded guilty in federal court in Boston to tampering with morphine at a local rehabilitation facility. Loralie LaBroad, 54, of Hampton, NH, pleaded guilty to one count of tampering with a consumer product. According to charging documents, while working as a traveling nurse assigned to a rehabilitation center, LaBroad tampered with two bottles of morphine on the medication cart she was assigned. LaBroad used a syringe to remove morphine from the bottles, injected another liquid substance into the bottles to replace the morphine she had removed, and returned the bottles to the medication cart. Investigators seized the bottles immediately after her shift and laboratory testing confirmed that the bottles each contained less than the declared concentration of morphine.
