Overview

• Christiana Ogbonnaya, a former nurse at the Houston VA Medical Center, has been indicted for allegedly falsifying patient records in a federal database.
• Prosecutors allege Ogbonnaya falsely documented multiple checks on a patient who was later found dead during her overnight shift in July 2024.
• The patient was discovered with a phone charging cable around his neck and a compression sock in his mouth, nearly eight hours after Ogbonnaya's only documented check.
• Ogbonnaya was arrested on May 12, 2025, and released on a $50,000 unsecured bond; she is scheduled for a pretrial hearing on June 23, 2025.
• If convicted, she could face up to five years in prison and a $250,000 fine under federal law governing falsified government records.