Former director of nursing at Montgomery nursing home indicted on charges of stealing drugs
The former director of nursing at a Montgomery nursing home has been indicted for stealing more than 1,000 hydrocodone tablets.
Attorney General Steve Marshall announced that a Montgomery County grand jury has returned a nine-count indictment against 45-year-old Tiffany Alexander Fields.
The indictment alleges that Fields, on nine occasions from December 2022 to March 2023, obtained 114 to 120 Hydrocodone tablets from the nursing home’s contract pharmacy by submitting phony prescriptions purportedly for residents of the nursing home, which she then kept.
Marshall’s office says theft of any controlled substance is considered theft of property second degree, a Class C felony, and punishable by one to ten years in prison and up to a $15,000 fine.
Fields surrendered at the Montgomery County Detention Facility on December 7. She was released on a $50,000 bond.
The Alabama Department of Public Health referred the nursing home complaint to the Attorney General’s Medicaid Fraud Control Unit for investigation and prosecution. The case was presented to the November 2023 term of the Montgomery County Grand Jury.
