Rocky Allen; Navy surgical tech criminal
One of our fans send us links to the story of Rocky Allen, who was a Navy surgical technician in Afghanistan until he got caught stealing drugs from the dispensary in the hospital where he worked there. He pleaded guilty to the charges in 2011 and spent 60 days in confinement. The Navy booted him after about a year in the Navy.
Two years later, at a hospital in California, working as a surgical technician again, he was caught stealing more drugs. They fired him. The following year, he was working at two hospitals in Arizona, and guess what? He was fired for stealing drugs from them, too. Within three months of beginning work. So, he moved to Colorado and he was working in another hospital, and since old habits are hard to break, a few months later, he popped hot on a urinalysis test after he was caught stealing drugs, once again. This time the hospital called back 2900 patients to be tested for Hepatitis B and C and HIV.
Of course, you know what comes next, right? His lawyer says that it’s our fault because he caught the PTSD in his few months of being in Afghanistan;
Allen’s defense attorney says Allen suffers from PTSD from his yearlong service with the Navy. He never experienced battle, but his attorney said he witnessed a lot of trauma and horror in Afghanistan.
Yeah, well, it sounds to me like he had a problem before he joined the Navy. It also seems like this healthcare system isn’t doing something right if they keep putting this guy in circumstances where his predictable behavior continues. Busted five times in the last five years seems like a pattern of bad behavior in which someone might want to intercede at this point.
Category: Navy
You could say with all his antics of the last few years
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That his life could be considered a bit of a
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Rocky Road
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/I’m sorry that was really bad.
//*goes and stands in the corner*
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Must be giving those drugs to his lawyers, because that has to be the shytyest excuse for a defense I have heard yet!
This is nothing more then a junkie
But he fits the SJW model to a T
Blame someone else.. 🙂
That, and perhaps using his access to pharmaceuticals as an easy way to supplement his income.
Either way, he does NOT need to be working anywhere near controlled substances – much less in a field requiring access to same on a daily basis. Period.
Word ^^^^^
Just another pill popper looking for easy access to a supply.
I am surprised the VA does not hire him.
Jeez. I will await word regarding the stress this nurse has experienced and the compassionate need for his retention in the medical field after he agrees to undergo treatment for his issue. And then I will ask just how this SOB maintained licensure with the reported history.
This guy’s four criminal actions and/or firings occurred in four different jurisdictions, 2/17 Air Cav. I’m also guessing he wasn’t exactly forthcoming with the last three employers about precisely why he left his prior job.
Not sure why none of his civilian employers notified state licensing agencies about the guy, or why the Navy didn’t do the same. However, it’s always possible they did – and that the state agencies don’t talk to one another.
well, minor point. He’s a O.R. Tech (HM8483), not a Nurse. They are certified (not necessary everywhere) and not licensed. A degree is desirable, but not required in most cases, especially if DoD trained.
Which really makes one wonder, since surgical techs are a dime a dozen and mass produced, why was this guy fired and then rehired so much?
Did the other employers let him slip away quietly, so nothing appeared on his record?
And also to avoid any public embarrassment for their hospital, maybe? Methinks you just hit the bullseye here, IDC SARC.
That’s what I meant…not that it was for his benefit per se.
Although, if he’s a charming type of sociopath…they always seem to have dedicated fans.
Half assed HR departments not doing any sort of vetting. Even if he was working as a contract OR tech, the company who is handling his records should have been notified of his firing at each of the places he worked at.
Unfortunately cases like this one do occur in the medical profession. My ex worked with a travel nurse that was caught diverting meds in an ICU and was shooting up Fentanyl in a bathroom – he was caught after he had walked away on a “break” and was found with they syringe in his hand, passed out on the floor. The hospital “dismissed” him, but never told the company why he was dismissed.
Sounds like the traveling nurse who was diverting meds for himself, and using/swapping the dirty needles.
Only about 20 people ended up with Hep C out of that little fiasco.
Because most techs don’t have licenses to pull, these HR departments need to stop letting them “slip away” and instead push for related charges and convictions. They can then be excluded by HHS-OIG which puts the kiss-o-death on them being hired by any other facility that receives govt funds, which means virtually all HC facilities.
Sorry about the nurse part. I was writing from ignorance, thinking that such a lofty title as Operating Room Technician was at or above an RN.
There are surgical Nurses at the R.N. level and an RN always runs the room. Surgical techs are a cheaper and focused alternative to hiring more RNs. Techs can actually be just as good as an RN in the scrub setting, because the education need to work effectively for the surgeons is task and team oriented, so the education is not really that important.
Manual dexterity, situational awareness and the ability to function effectively under stress are much more important in the actual operation.
SOunds like he needs to have his hands and fingers broken. Problem solved. No more manual dexterity to be able to do more thefts.
Most disturbing of all is this: This time the hospital called back 2900 patients to be tested for Hepatitis B and C and HIV.
Truly thinking I’d be better off calling a large animal vet for annual flu and pneumonia shots than going to human health care places.
You mean stealing drugs from the hospital isn’t a criminal offence for which some turd could be placed with Tiny and Thor? And this happened over and over again? What is wrong with that picture? There must be something more.
Also, why would they call 2900 patients back for testing unless testing of said turd revealed that he had one or all of the aforementioned problems?
Talk about coddling criminals….
The health industry’s record keeping and reporting process is so fubar they can’t keep from committing serial stupid by constantly re-hiring a serial thief, but we should take their word as gospel when they report the negative health condition of our entire nation.
Is that negative in the medical sense of “Your test came back negative” or in the usual sense of “not good”?
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(Goes and stands in the other corner.)
Meant in the sense that “all Americans are fat” and all the other “all American’s are…” bullshit that constantly dribbles out of that ruptured intellectual anus of that wannabee eugenics utopia manufacturing industry.
Did no civilian hospital ask to see his 214? No way this guy has an honorable. I’m thinking BCD.
I’ve seen instances of a civilian hospital giving an employee a pass just to rid themselves of a bad actor. That way the employee can ‘honestly’ say they were not fired and leaving was their decision. I’m thinking the Navy was less forgiving.
Two flags went up for me. 1. That he’d had issues with prior workplaces… 2. that his attorney was SO very quick to jump on the PTSD bandwagon when the reporting was saying a year or less in Afghanistan.
The guy is a serial druggie who likely was a druggie before he went into the Navy.
30 vials stolen while in Afghanistan?? 60 days for that and then boom they get him gone?
Civilian employers are also at fault b/c they didn’t run full background check and get his 214 for themselves.
But honestly for attorney to try the PTSD deal? Hell. No.