Tupelo Nursing Facility Worker Arrested

PRESS RELEASE

Jackson, Miss.- Angela Sweat, 37, of Tupelo, has been arrested for alleged possession of a controlled substance, announced Attorney General Jim Hood today.

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Sweat turned herself in to authorities Friday following an indictment by a Lee County Grand Jury on one count of acquiring or obtaining possession of a controlled substance or a legal drug by larceny, embezzlement, misrepresentation, fraud, forgery, deception or subterfuge.
At the time the crime is alleged to have been committed, Sweat was working as a Resident Assistant at a facility in Tupelo. The indictment alleges that Sweat obtained Norco, a controlled substance, that was prescribed to and purchased for a patient at of the facility. She alleged converted the pills for her own use.
Sweat was booked into the Lee County jail and posted a $3,000 bond. The defendant faces a maximum of five years in prison and $1,000 in fines. As with all cases, a charge is merely an accusation, and the defendant is presumed innocent until and unless proven guilty beyond a reasonable doubt in a court of law.
This case was investigated by Joe Sanderson and will be prosecuted by Special Assistant Mark McClinton of the Attorney General’s Medicaid Fraud Control Unit. The Lee County Sheriff’s Department assisted with the investigation.