Fluvanna nurse accused of forging records, stealing pills [Video]

A nurse at a hyper-monitored state women’s prison was arrested for allegedly stealing oxycodone and forging records, court records show.

Michelle Collier, a nurse at Fluvanna Correctional Center for Women, stands charged with possessing oxycodone, a Schedule 2 drug, and committing forgery on a “count sheet” used by the prison to track the distribution of the pills.

Collier was a nurse responsible for pill administration. She was indicted by a Fluvanna County jury in December 2023.

The missing medications were flagged on the evening of March 3, according to internal emails shared by the prison’s former nursing director, Benite’e Towler Moore. Another prison nurse found that an inmate didn’t have enough pain pills to last him through the weekend.

Moore was later demoted and transferred by administrators with the Department of Corrections. She has filed a complaint stating that one of the reasons she believes she was punished was because …