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| Former Army nurse gets prison in hepatitis C case |
| By chron.com |
| Published: 12/02/2009 |
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EL PASO, Texas — A former Army nurse who admitted infecting patients at a military hospital with hepatitis C while stealing powerful painkillers from them during surgery was sentenced Tuesday to more than three years in federal prison. Jon Dale Jones, a 47-year-old retired Army major, admitted in April that he repeatedly stole the intravenous painkiller fentanyl — often used in anesthesia — from surgery patients while working as a civilian nurse anesthetist at William Beaumont Army Medical Center in El Paso. Assistant U.S. Attorney Bill Lewis said then that investigators believed Jones infected at least 16 patients after pulling fentanyl from a clean vial at the hospital and putting it in a contaminated container he brought from home. He would then give patients the remaining medicine from the hospital's newly infected vials, Lewis said. During Tuesday's hearing, two of Jones' victims testified that the one-time soldier was remorseful and should be given leniency. "I believe he deserves a second chance," Ivan Westrick told U.S. District Judge Frank Montalvo. "I ... believe he's taken a step forward." Read More. |
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