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A Texas anesthesiologist prosecutors dubbed a “medical terrorist” has been found guilty of injecting patients' IV bags with dangerous drugs, which led to the death of a co-worker and numerous cardiac emergencies, the U.S. Attorney's Office in the Northern District of Texas said.
On April 12, after an eight-day trial and seven hours of deliberation, a jury convicted Raynaldo Riviera Ortiz Jr., 60, of four counts of tampering with consumer products resulting in serious bodily injury, one count of tampering with a consumer product and five counts of intentional adulteration of a drug, the U.S. Attorney’s Office in the Northern District of Texas said in a release.
'Medical Terrorist' Doctor Who Killed Fellow MD by Tampering with IV Bag Is Convicted
Raynaldo Riviera Ortiz Jr., 60, a doctor who was convicted of killing a fellow MD by tampering with patients' IV bags, faces up to 190 years in prison.
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