A Massachusetts-based nurse pleaded not guilty Friday to a charge related to allegedly replacing a hospice patient’s oxycodone with a household cleaner.

Lori Robertson, of Salem, New Hampshire, worked at a long-term care and rehabilitation facility in Amesbury, according to court documents.

Around March 31, Robertson removed liquid oxycodone from a non-verbal hospice and dementia patient’s prescription bottle with a syringe and replaced it with a household cleaner, federal authorities allege.

It is not stated in the documents whether or not the cleaner was administered to the patient or how it was discovered that the Schedule II controlled substance had been replaced.

Robertson was federally charged with one count of tampering with a consumer product, according to court documents.

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