{"id":173357,"date":"2018-07-26T04:05:53","date_gmt":"2018-07-26T08:05:53","guid":{"rendered":"https:\/\/canadianinquirer.net\/v1\/?p=173357"},"modified":"2018-07-26T04:05:54","modified_gmt":"2018-07-26T08:05:54","slug":"emt-pleads-guilty-stealing-opioids-replacing-saline","status":"publish","type":"post","link":"https:\/\/canadianinquirer.net\/v1\/2018\/07\/26\/emt-pleads-guilty-stealing-opioids-replacing-saline\/","title":{"rendered":"EMT pleads guilty to stealing opioids, replacing with saline"},"content":{"rendered":"<figure id=\"attachment_102723\" aria-describedby=\"caption-attachment-102723\" style=\"width: 640px\" class=\"wp-caption alignnone\"><a href=\"https:\/\/canadianinquirer.net\/v1\/wp-content\/uploads\/2017\/05\/15910692553_845f77f91a_z-1.jpg\"><img loading=\"lazy\" decoding=\"async\" class=\"size-full wp-image-102723\" src=\"https:\/\/canadianinquirer.net\/v1\/wp-content\/uploads\/2017\/05\/15910692553_845f77f91a_z-1.jpg\" alt=\"\" width=\"640\" height=\"480\" srcset=\"https:\/\/canadianinquirer.net\/v1\/wp-content\/uploads\/2017\/05\/15910692553_845f77f91a_z-1.jpg 640w, https:\/\/canadianinquirer.net\/v1\/wp-content\/uploads\/2017\/05\/15910692553_845f77f91a_z-1-300x225.jpg 300w\" sizes=\"auto, (max-width: 640px) 100vw, 640px\" \/><\/a><figcaption id=\"caption-attachment-102723\" class=\"wp-caption-text\">The Springfield News-Leader reports that 30-year-old Zachary McCleary pleaded guilty Monday to tampering with a consumer product. (<a href=\"https:\/\/www.flickr.com\/photos\/armydre2008\/15910692553\/in\/photolist-qeYszp-UudcWj-9pAnnS-SyAoqp-bvc7PH-DoEL75-CARN4B-DoEJ6w-dkoQLa-SyAvK4-SyBiiP-RJ3XjU-SLMMRC-TNCT1g-SyBtLT-QDtPDm-SWWA71-UEQkFj-RVZvsi-T1zqtF-GxFGnJ-SLq6ZA-UxhXGi-TCL1nn-TvfMhg-s5z5cY-sjSmjY-s5H19H-apjV7y-sn83rM-snatR4-SLqnxj-H3Zb3b-Hndp1H-GxFTrC-TNqRBt-GxFSTU-RHFHT7-T1zssk-Hndy1M-TBbfpp-SvUmwY-H3YZ8A-GxFYqq-HndvHa-GxFSe7-H3YWkw-QDtQe9-GxP8ni-Tdnhj1\">Photo: frankieleon\/Flickr<\/a>)<\/figcaption><\/figure>\n<p>SPRINGFIELD, Mo. \u2014 A southern Missouri paramedic has pleaded guilty to stealing opioids and filling the empty vials with saline solution.<\/p>\n<p>The Springfield News-Leader reports that 30-year-old Zachary McCleary pleaded guilty Monday to tampering with a consumer product. Prosecutors say 18 patients in Barton County alone reported getting salt water instead of painkillers because of McCleary&#8217;s actions.<\/p>\n<p>The U.S. Attorney&#8217;s Office says McCleary worked as an emergency medical technician for three agencies in the region: CoxHealth in Springfield, Mercy Health in Carthage and with Barton County Emergency Medical Service.<\/p>\n<p>The Food and Drug Administration also investigated. The agency found that opioid-based drugs like fentanyl, morphine, hydrocodone and ketamine were stolen from numerous places where McCleary worked.<\/p>\n<p>&nbsp;<\/p>\n","protected":false},"excerpt":{"rendered":"<p>SPRINGFIELD, Mo. \u2014 A southern Missouri paramedic has pleaded guilty to stealing opioids and filling the empty vials with saline &hellip;<\/p>\n","protected":false},"author":33,"featured_media":102723,"comment_status":"open","ping_status":"open","sticky":false,"template":"","format":"standard","meta":{"footnotes":""},"categories":[37,16,17],"tags":[],"class_list":["post-173357","post","type-post","status-publish","format-standard","has-post-thumbnail","category-health","category-news","category-news-w","mauthors-the-associated-press"],"_links":{"self":[{"href":"https:\/\/canadianinquirer.net\/v1\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/posts\/173357","targetHints":{"allow":["GET"]}}],"collection":[{"href":"https:\/\/canadianinquirer.net\/v1\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/posts"}],"about":[{"href":"https:\/\/canadianinquirer.net\/v1\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/types\/post"}],"author":[{"embeddable":true,"href":"https:\/\/canadianinquirer.net\/v1\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/users\/33"}],"replies":[{"embeddable":true,"href":"https:\/\/canadianinquirer.net\/v1\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/comments?post=173357"}],"version-history":[{"count":0,"href":"https:\/\/canadianinquirer.net\/v1\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/posts\/173357\/revisions"}],"wp:featuredmedia":[{"embeddable":true,"href":"https:\/\/canadianinquirer.net\/v1\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/media\/102723"}],"wp:attachment":[{"href":"https:\/\/canadianinquirer.net\/v1\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/media?parent=173357"}],"wp:term":[{"taxonomy":"category","embeddable":true,"href":"https:\/\/canadianinquirer.net\/v1\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/categories?post=173357"},{"taxonomy":"post_tag","embeddable":true,"href":"https:\/\/canadianinquirer.net\/v1\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/tags?post=173357"}],"curies":[{"name":"wp","href":"https:\/\/api.w.org\/{rel}","templated":true}]}}