Delnor Employee Arrested for Stealing Drugs From Patient

A 22-year-old Yorkville woman was caught with drugs at Delnor Hospital that weren't hers, according to police.

Geneva police arrested Julie Wood of Yorkville on charges of possession of a controlled substance at about 11:30 p.m. Sat., Jan. 21, at the hospital, 300 S. Randall Road, according to a police report.

Wood is a patient care technician at Delnor Hospital. Reports said she entered a patient’s room and stole 37 Hydrocodone pills that were located inside of the patient’s purse. When the patient returned to her room, she found Wood "looking through her bagged property," the report said.

Wood left the room, exited the hospital and sat inside her vehicle for a break. The pills were "subsequently located inside Wood’s Dodge Caravan" after Wood received her Miranda warning, police said.

Hydrocodone pills are a Schedule II narcotic, according to the report.

"Hydrocodone is in a class of medications called opiate (narcotic) analgesics and in a class of medications called antitussives," according to the U.S. National Library of Medicine website. "Hydrocodone relieves pain by changing the way the brain and nervous system respond to pain." It is used to relieve moderate to severe pain.

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