MAGOFFIN COUNTY WOMAN HIT WITH INDICTMENT IN FEDERAL COURT FOR TAMPERING WITH NARCOTIC PAIN RELIEVER WHILE WORKING AS NURSE
TAMPERING INCIDENT & LYING TO FEDERAL AGENT HAPPENED IN JOHNSON COUNTY IN LATE 2018
MAY 8, 2019 – written by WADE QUEEN
INDICTED NURSE KELSIE SPENCER
A Magoffin County woman. who while working as an Eastern Kentucky nurse, has been indicted in federal court on charges she allegedly tampered with a narcotic pain reliever medication while on the job.
According to the indictment, Kelsie Spencer, 24 of Salyersville, was indicted in United States District Court in Pikeville on April 25,were Spencer was accused of tampering with butorphanol tartrate, a narcotic pain reliever also known as Stadol, a Schedule IV controlled substance, by allegedly diluted the narcotic with saline, between November 13 and 14, 2018 in Johnson County.
Kelsie Spencer is also accused of lying to a U.S. Food and Drug Administration special agent on November 19, 2018. FDA officials said she told them she was not familiar with the AccuDose Rx Station, when she had actually been trained on the station while working at Appalachian Regional Healthcare. According to court documents, Spencer used the station 1,467 times while working at Appalachian Regional Healthcare.
Kelsie Spencer is facing up to a 10-year sentence in federal prison and a $250,000 fine for the tampering charge, and up to a five-year prison sentence and a $250,000 fine for the charge of lying to a U.S. FDA special agent. She also faces after any jail time with getting three years supervised release on each of the charges
Spencer was arrested on morning of Wednesday, May 1, and taken to the Pike County Detention Center, in Pikeville. Kelsie Spencer has since posted her bail bond and has since been released.
