TOMAH, WI (WTAQ) – Charges are pending against three people suspected of selling illegal narcotics to veterans at the embattled Tomah VA Medical Center.
A VA spokesman said the drugs did not come from the facility’s inventory.
The Tomah center has been the focus of state and federal investigations into the over-prescription of painkillers which led to the death of a Marine last summer.
Wednesday, the Tomah VA said that two people — including a center employee — were arrested Monday for trying to sell outside drugs at the center. A third arrest was made Tuesday.
Tomah Police and Monroe County sheriff’s deputies helped the VA investigate.
Officials said 60-year-old Bernard Jackson, the center employee, was in custody along wit 49-year-old Alisa Hamley and 61-year-old Elija Pates. All three are from Tomah, and were expected to have court appearances in Monroe County.
Online court records do not list any charges yet.
(Story courtesy of Wheeler News Service)
