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Virginia Beach nurse charged with stealing dead man's credit card

Posted on April 1, 2008 by Dissent

Aaron Applegate of The Virginian-Pilot reports:

An unconscious man was spotted last week in the parking lot of a BJ’s Wholesale Club. He was taken to Sentara Bayside Hospital and pronounced dead.

Six hours later, a man in hospital scrubs used the dead man’s credit card at Best Buy to buy a laptop computer, police said.

On Tuesday, police arrested a Sentara Bayside nurse and charged him with the crime. Matthew J. Wiseman, 24, is facing one count of credit card theft and one count of credit card fraud, both felonies. He was working in the emergency room when the man was brought in, police said.

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Full story – The Virginian-Pilot 

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