Former New Jersey hospital employee accused of stealing $2.5 million worth of medical supplies

A former surgical technician is charged with stealing $2.5 million worth of medical supplies from a hospital in New Jersey and then reselling them in South Carolina, officials said Monday.

A former surgical technician is charged with stealing $2.5 million worth of medical supplies from a hospital in New Jersey and then reselling them in South Carolina, officials said Monday.

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Marci M. Staub, 44, a former employee of Cooper University Health Care in Camden, is alleged to have impersonated a medical supply vendor as she sold the devices to a medical supply company, the Camden County Prosecutor’s Office said in a release.

She has been charged with theft, receiving stolen property, distribution of prescription drugs and impersonation of a representative of a medical organization, the release said.