TACOMA, Wash. (AP) — The U.S. attorney’s office says a former Camas, Wash., paramedic has been sentenced to 27 months in prison after he admitted stealing supplies of the narcotic pain medication Fentanyl and replacing them with tap water.
Bradley Curtis Allen earlier pleaded guilty to product tampering. He was sentenced Friday in federal court in Tacoma. The 60-year-old told Camas police he had been stealing and using the drug for three years. Allen had worked for the Camas Fire Department for 22 years.
An investigation last May found that all the department’s Fentanyl was missing from its storage areas. The drug is used as an emergency pain medication.
Camas Fire Chief Leo Leon says the department has tightened security over the three controlled painkillers that paramedics use.
