Jackson, MS-A fourth caregiver at a New Albany care center has been arrested following indictment, announced Attorney General Jim Hood.

Wendy Gray, age 42, of 110 South Lake Street in Booneville, turned herself in to an investigator of the Attorney General’s Office yesterday on a two count indictment by a Union County Grand Jury for acquiring or obtaining possession of a controlled substance or prescription by misrepresentation, fraud and the like, Miss. Code Ann. 41-29-144(1).

The indictment alleges that Gray, while working as an LPN at Graceland Care Center in New Albany, acquired the substance fentanyl from one or more duragesic patches from the bodies of two residents of the facility under the guise of providing medical care.  Gray was allegedly removing duragesic patches from the residents to consume the medications contained within.

Gray was booked into the Union County jail.  Her bond was set at $5,000 each count, for a total of $10,000.  If convicted, she faces one to five years behind bars and/or a $1,000 fine.

Gray is the fourth nurse from the Graceland Care Center to be arrested by the Attorney General’s Office, Medicaid Fraud Division, in the past four months.

As with all cases, the defendant is presumed innocent until proven guilty in a court of law.