SIOUX CITY, Iowa (KCAU) — A former nurse from Sioux City who stole drugs such as fentanyl and morphine from her hospital will serve nine months in federal prison. According to a release from the U.S. District Court for the Northern District of Iowa, Morgan Miralles, 32, was sentenced Friday in Sioux City. After her prison term, she will also be under supervised release for three additional years. There is no parole in the federal system.

Miralles originally pleaded guilty in August 2023 to one count of acquiring a controlled substance by means of misrepresentation, fraud, deception and subterfuge, and one count of false statements relating to health care matters.

Evidence from the case indicates that she was stealing drugs intended for patient use – fentanyl, morphine, hydromorphine and hydrocodone – and kept them for her own personal use. She was stealing these drugs as early as April 2020 and through August 2022. In order to cover her tracks, Miralles falsified documents “on an almost weekly basis” by omitting certain information from logs. She also admitted to stealing Benadryl after not receiving a promotion as a way to get revenge.

Miralles will surrender to the Bureau of Prisons at an undetermined date.