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Morro Bay resident Arthur Bethel is charged with making tainted treats that sickened as many as 11 workers at Sierra Vista hospital
Registered nurse William Jodry started feeling different after the fourth brownie.
His skin started tingling. A weight settled on his shoulders, as if he was wearing a heavy leather coat.
He found himself struggling to concentrate as he flipped through a manual about how to inject the medicine-filled syringe in his hand in a patient's intravenous line.
"I was starting to wonder, 'Am I having a stroke?' " Jodry said, "because, as nurses, we tend to think of the worst things."
Then the thought hit him, he said. "Someone ... spiked the brownies."
Jodry was among three Sierra Vista Regional Medical Center employees who testified Monday about experiencing symptoms including dizziness, giddiness and nausea April 20 after unknowingly eating marijuana-laced brownies.
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According to investigative records, Bethel brought a plate of brownies to the San Luis Obispo hospital after joking with his wife's boss about National Stoners Day. He has denied putting marijuana in the treats.
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Evangelina Sanchez, a nurse's aide, said she grew ill about 3:30 p.m. that day, about a half-hour after eating two slightly burned brownies she found in the break room.
Sanchez said she felt so dizzy while waiting to pick up her children from Laguna Middle School that she threw up "two or three times." Then she dozed off for two hours while her children waited to leave.
When she tried to exit the school parking lot, Sanchez said she almost hit a tree.
Sierra Vista floor supervisor Elaine Jacobs also had trouble driving after eating one of the brownies, she told an investigator with the county District Attorney's Office.
"She found herself stopped at an intersection basically daydreaming, sitting there and not knowing why," said the investigator, Thomas Tolbert.
Hospital tests of the workers' urine revealed marijuana, prosecutors said. The San Luis Obispo Police Department confirmed those results after testing a sample of the brownies saved by Jodry, Tolbert said.
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Morro Bay resident Arthur Bethel is charged with making tainted treats that sickened as many as 11 workers at Sierra Vista hospital
Registered nurse William Jodry started feeling different after the fourth brownie.
His skin started tingling. A weight settled on his shoulders, as if he was wearing a heavy leather coat.
He found himself struggling to concentrate as he flipped through a manual about how to inject the medicine-filled syringe in his hand in a patient's intravenous line.
"I was starting to wonder, 'Am I having a stroke?' " Jodry said, "because, as nurses, we tend to think of the worst things."
Then the thought hit him, he said. "Someone ... spiked the brownies."
Jodry was among three Sierra Vista Regional Medical Center employees who testified Monday about experiencing symptoms including dizziness, giddiness and nausea April 20 after unknowingly eating marijuana-laced brownies.
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According to investigative records, Bethel brought a plate of brownies to the San Luis Obispo hospital after joking with his wife's boss about National Stoners Day. He has denied putting marijuana in the treats.
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Evangelina Sanchez, a nurse's aide, said she grew ill about 3:30 p.m. that day, about a half-hour after eating two slightly burned brownies she found in the break room.
Sanchez said she felt so dizzy while waiting to pick up her children from Laguna Middle School that she threw up "two or three times." Then she dozed off for two hours while her children waited to leave.
When she tried to exit the school parking lot, Sanchez said she almost hit a tree.
Sierra Vista floor supervisor Elaine Jacobs also had trouble driving after eating one of the brownies, she told an investigator with the county District Attorney's Office.
"She found herself stopped at an intersection basically daydreaming, sitting there and not knowing why," said the investigator, Thomas Tolbert.
Hospital tests of the workers' urine revealed marijuana, prosecutors said. The San Luis Obispo Police Department confirmed those results after testing a sample of the brownies saved by Jodry, Tolbert said.
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