Nurse steals patient's medications

Ian Matthews, 35, was arrested Tuesday night and charged with theft, a Class A misdemeanor, after he was caught on video stealing pills from a resident’s room at Monroe House, an assisted living community, on 2770 S. Adams St., Sgt. Pam Gladish said. Matthews is a nurse there.

One of the resident’s daughters complained to police someone stole her mother’s medicine, which included pain killers and antidepressants. She hid a video camera in her mother’s room, and it recorded Matthews taking pills from a safe and putting them in his pockets.

The video tape is inconclusive as to which ?medications were taken.

When officers interviewed Matthews, he admitted to being in the woman’s room but couldn’t explain what he was doing there. He didn’t admit to stealing the medications.

Andy Wittry