Former Fresno nurse sentenced for stealing fentanyl from her employer

FRESNO, Calif. (KFSN) -- A pistillate learned her destiny successful a Fresno County Courtroom for stealing Fentanyl from her leader successful 2019.

Thursday afternoon, erstwhile Fresno caregiver Melissa Galvani was handcuffed successful tribunal and sentenced to 180 days successful custody and 2 years' probation.

The justice allowing her to divided her time, with 90 days successful jailhouse and 90 days completing an big offender enactment program.

Galvani's attorney, Jack Revvill, was hoping for nary jailhouse time, describing Galvani arsenic a changed woman.

"It's been a precise hard clip due to the fact that I deliberation she is an exceptional person. A idiosyncratic who worked truly hard to flooded immoderate aboriginal beingness difficulties that yet led to an addiction," said Jack Revvill.

Galvani was a registered caregiver and recovered blameworthy of stealing Fentanyl from her leader successful 2019.

She was discovered aft the manager of nurses astatine the Ear, Nose, and Throat Medical Center successful Northeast Fresno was helping bash a regular number of the controlled substances and realized vials were missing.

At the time, Galvani testified that she was utilizing Fentanyl connected the patients, past sneaking disconnected and injecting herself with the leftovers.

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Revill says that Galvani knew she had a occupation and was dealing with an affectional battle.

He asked her to instrumentality notes connected her feelings and thoughts, sharing astir the alleviation she felt erstwhile being arrested.

"You are going to beryllium capable to woody with your addiction due to the fact that you haven't been capable to and that is thing she thought about," said Revvill.

In court, Revvill explained to the justice that Galvani enactment successful the clip and effort to amended herself, including enrolling successful a rehabilitation and betterment program.

"She was successful a three-year attraction program. The archetypal 2 years progressive regular AA meetings, counseling and regular check-ins to spot if determination would beryllium cause tests," said Revvill.

Galvani's nursing licence was suspended, and she was presently moving astatine the Poverello House full-time.

She is besides facing the aforesaid charges for stealing Fentanyl from an leader successful Madera County, besides respective years ago.

Revvill says sentencing successful Madera volition person to beryllium pushed back.

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