(Cedar Rapids, IA) A former nurse from eastern Iowa who stole painkillers for her own use won’t have to serve any federal prison time. Prosecutors say 52-year-old Sabrina Thalblum of Cedar Rapids was sentenced to five years of probation after pleading guilty to acquiring a controlled substance by misrepresentation, fraud, deception, and subterfuge, and adulteration and misbranding with intent to defraud and mislead. Thalblum admitted that she was addicted to fentanyl and carefully punctured the vials with needles to draw out the drug and then refilled the vials with saline. Thalblum was also fined ten-thousand dollars and has to forfeit her nursing license.
