Overview
- Travis Eskridge, 54, was sentenced on Nov. 25 to two years in federal prison after a May guilty plea to tampering with a consumer product.
- Prosecutors said he removed fentanyl from vials intended for emergency-room patients at Ascension St. John Hospital and put another liquid back into the vials.
- U.S. District Judge Susan K. DeClercq imposed the sentence in a case investigated by the FDA Office of Criminal Investigations.
- Court documents reported he removed as many as 178 vials and refilled them with saline before returning them to the locked dispensing system.
- The hospital removed him from his position in August 2022, and Michigan suspended his nursing license in December 2024.