Illinois nurse gets probation for using dead patient's credit card
She charged items ranging from a utility bill to a dog collar.
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She charged items ranging from a utility bill to a dog collar.
She charged items ranging from a utility bill to a dog collar.
Velma Copeland is free again after posting higher bond.
DECATUR â Velma L. Copeland, the nurse accused of fueling a $1,700Â spending spree with a dead Decatur patientâs credit card, appeared in court Wednesday afternoon pleading not guilty. Copeland denied one charge of aggravated identity theft and one charge of unlawful possession of a credit card. She also pleaded not guilty to one count of drug possession after Decatur police said the RN was found with a single pill of hydrocodone bitartrate, a powerful painkiller, when she was frisked after her arrest Feb. 16. Copeland, 48, told Macon County Circuit Court Judge Rodney Forbes she w...