Date Published: 12/05/2021
ARCHIVED - Nurse in La Linea, Cadiz arrested for stealing Covid vaccines to sell
Police believe there may be other suspects who were part of the nurse’s plans to sell the vaccines in La Linea in Cadiz, Andalusia.
A 27-year-old male nurse in La Linea has been accused of bribery and forgery after allegedly stealing vaccines which had been delivered to the hospital he worked in before selling them.
According to police, the nurse allegedly altered hospital documents to steal the doses before he stored the jabs in his Mercedes, which officers have now seized, allegedly using his vehicle to travel to administer the vaccines in people’s homes or on the street and selling the rest.
Officers are now investigating the man’s mobile phone to discover if other individuals were involved in the plot, and have also searched his parents’ home to gather further evidence.
They are also trying to work out how many doses the man took and how many have been used.
It reportedly took more than a month before the Hospital of La Linea de la Concepcion realised that the doses were missing and anomalies in the documents of those waiting to be vaccinated, before they involved the National Police.
Investigators from the la Linea police station have now arrested the man, who is the son of a nurse and a local policeman, and have not ruled out the possibility that others were involved.
La Linea has seen an outbreak in crime over the past two days after rioters took to the streets following the death of two suspected drug runners who drowned after their boat developed problems out to sea.
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