Cora Weberg, 31, who has since been released from the Pierce County Jail, was booked early Friday on suspicion of two counts of second-degree assaultthis link opens in a new tab, the Puyallup Police Department said in a post on its Facebook page.
She has not been formally charged, and her mother, Eunice, told the media at a news conference Friday that her daughter “wouldn’t hurt a bug.”
Weberg’s attorney, Bryan Hershman, said Weberg denies the allegationsthis link opens in a new tab, reports The News-Tribune.
The arrest follows an alert April 30 by officials at Puyallup’s MultiCare Good Samaritan Hospital, who held a news conference to say that 2,600 patients who may have interacted with the nurse should seek testing. Although they did not identify the nurse by name at the time, they said the nurse was “surprised” to find that she had the disease herself, and admitted to investigators that she had “diverted” injectable narcotics meant for patient use.
“The nurse’s actions violated our organization’s values,” the hospital’s chief operating officer, Chris Bredeson, told reporters. “We sincerely apologize to the two patients infected and the patients who need to be screened.”
Hospital officials said their investigation began a month ago but they withheld their public alert until they could confirm the suspected link between the nurse and the emergency room patients.
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