A FORMER IOWA NURSE FROM ONAWA, IOWA HAS BEEN SENTENCED TO 3 AND A HALF YEARS IN FEDERAL PRISON
ON CHARGES INVOLVING STEALING PAIN MEDICATION FROM NURSING HOME RESIDENTS, BURGLARIZING RESIDENCES, AND OTHER COUNTS.
47-YEAR-OLD SARAH ANN HAPTONSTALL PLED GUILTY TO ONE COUNT OF ACQUIRING AND ATTEMPTING TO ACQUIRE A CONTROLLED SUBSTANCE BY MISREPRESENTATION, FRAUD, DECEPTION, OR SUBTERFUGE, ONE COUNT OF POSSESSION OF A FIREARM BY A FELON, AND ONE COUNT OF BANK FRAUD.
IN A PLEA AGREEMENT, HAPTONSTALL ADMITTED THAT IN MARCH 2023, SHE BURGLARIZED AN ONAWA COUPLE’S HOME ON MULTIPLE OCCASIONS IN ORDER TO STEAL NARCOTIC PAIN MEDICATION.
A RESIDENT NEEDED THE MEDICATION FOR NERVE PAIN AND HAPTONSTALL KNEW THIS BECAUSE WHEN SHE WAS A NURSE, SHE HAD DELIVERED NARCOTICS TO THE ONAWA COUPLE’S RESIDENCE IN 2021.
HAPTONSTALL WAS ALSO STEALING RESIDENTS’ PAIN MEDICATIONS FROM MULTIPLE OTHER APARTMENTS IN ONAWA.
ALSO, WHILE WORKING AS A LICENSED IOWA NURSE, SHE STOLE PILLS FROM FOUR ELDERLY RESIDENTS OF AN ONAWA NURSING HOME AND A SERGEANT BLUFF NURSING HOME.
ONE OF THE NURSING HOME RESIDENTS DIED BECAUSE THE DEFENDANT HAD SWAPPED OUT THE VICTIM’S NARCOTIC PILLS FOR TYLENOL AND MADE A FALSE ENTRY IN HER MEDICAL RECORD.
WHEN LAW ENFORCEMENT OFFICERS ARRESTED HAPTONSTALL, SHE POSSESSED A 9MM LUGER PISTOL IN HER TRUCK.
SHE WAS A FELON AND DRUG USER AT THE TIME, AND SO IT WAS ILLEGAL FOR HER TO POSSESS FIREARMS.
HAPTONSTALL ALSO EMBEZZLED OVER $8,000 FROM AN ONAWA BUSINESS THAT SHE WAS A BOOKKEEPER FOR.
