Overview
- A federal grand jury indicted Lori Robertson on Oct. 30 on one count of tampering with a consumer product.
- Prosecutors allege that around March 31 she withdrew liquid oxycodone from a prescription bottle with a syringe and replaced it with a household cleaner.
- The alleged victim is a non-verbal hospice patient with dementia at an Amesbury long-term care and rehabilitation facility where Robertson worked.
- Robertson was arrested on Oct. 31, pleaded not guilty the same day, and was released on conditions including no alcohol, no employment with access to drugs, and drug testing.
- Court filings do not state whether the cleaner was administered or how the tampering was discovered, and the case is set for a Nov. 24 status conference.