Former New Jersey hospital employee allegedly stole $2.5 million worth of medical supplies - BERITAJA

A erstwhile surgical technician is charged pinch stealing $2.5 cardinal worthy of aesculapian supplies from a infirmary successful New Jersey and past reselling them successful South Carolina, officials said Monday.

Marci M. Staub, 44, a erstwhile worker of Cooper University Health Care successful Camden, allegedly impersonated a aesculapian proviso vendor while trading the devices to a aesculapian proviso company, the Camden County Prosecutor’s Office said successful a release.

She's been charged pinch theft, receiving stolen property, distribution of medicine narcotics and impersonation of a typical of a aesculapian organization, the merchandise said.

Prosecutors said detectives obtained financial records showing Staub received much than $427,000 successful payments from reselling the items.

On Oct. 2, the infirmary noticed that a ample amount of Medtronic Infuse bony graft devices and different supplies were missing, and that the hospital’s inventory did not lucifer the documented magnitude of products recorded arsenic used.

Cooper University Health Care told Beritaja successful a connection that it is cooperating pinch the investigation.

“As this is an progressive criminal investigation, Cooper University Health Care cannot remark beyond that we actively investigated this incident and reported it to rule enforcement arsenic soon arsenic it was discovered, terminated the employee, and proceed to cooperate pinch the investigation," the infirmary said successful a statement. "Theft aliases immoderate usurpation of the rule will not beryllium tolerated astatine Cooper.”

The merchandise from Camden County Prosecutors said that infirmary officials noticed they were refilling orders for the devices much often from December 2024 done July 2025, contempt not seeing an summation successful diligent attraction that would relationship for the further usage.

“During the investigation that followed, detectives from the Camden County Prosecutor’s Office Major Crimes Unit reviewed surveillance footage from November to December 2025, showing Staub arriving astatine activity pinch an quiet container and past leaving pinch it filled,” the merchandise said.

In December, the Camden County Sheriff’s Office caught Staub leaving the infirmary pinch aesculapian supplies, prosecutors said.

Since then, she has been terminated from her domiciled and has been remanded to the Camden County Correctional Facility wherever she remains successful custody. It is not clear if she has ineligible representation.