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Montana Nursing Director Pleads Guilty to Tampering with Drugs

A Sand Springs woman accused of tampering with drugs at a local healthcare center admitted to charges, US Attorney Kurt Alme said. The defendant, Kailyn Marie Smotherman, 35, pleaded guilty to one count of tampering with consumer products. The government alleged in court documents that on January 19, 2023, Kailyn Marie Smotherman was discovered to have been tampering with controlled substances at the Garfield County Health Center in Jordan, Montana, where she worked as the Director of Nursing. Staff at the facility entered Smotherman’s locked office to retrieve a narcotics log and noticed several suspicious items, including hospital stock narcotics, an IV pole, tourniquets, needles, IV equipment, replacement vial caps, replacement medication labels, and what appeared to be blood on many surfaces. During a subsequent search of the office, staff and law enforcement found numerous vials of fentanyl that had been tampered with (caps removed and replaced) or had been emptied. They also discovered other controlled substances that had been replaced.