Former Pikeville Nurse Sentenced for Stealing Drugs

A former nurse has been sentenced to five years in prison after pleading guilty last year
to stealing drugs from a hospital.

Mountain Top News reports Jacqueline Brewster of Belfry pleaded guilty to obtaining a controlled substance by fraud and wrongful disclosure of patient health information in order to get hydromorphone.

She has also been banned from nursing in Kentucky as well as West Virginia and Tennessee.