LaPorte hospital employee charged with theft of equipment www.privateofficer.com

LaPorte IN Feb 28 2011 An employee at a LaPorte hospital has been charged after police say she was caught stealing hospital equipment to fund a gambling addiction.
According to our reporting partners at the Herald Argus, Cheryl Pender, 44, has been charged with theft.

Police say a supervisor at IU Health LaPorte Hospital caught Pender stealing a sleep apnea machine.

Investigators think she was selling them to VA clinics to pay for her gambling addiction.

Pender faces up to eight years in prison if convicted.