U.S. District Judge Stanley R. Chesler said a two-year prison sentence was appropriate to deter Angela DeVarso and others like her from committing similar crimes. Ms. DeVarso sold the equipment she stole on the internet at a “remarkable discount,” according to the report.
Ms. DeVarso pleaded guilty to a single count of transportation of stolen goods last April. She admitted to taking items such as surgical blades, laparoscopes, a surgical camera, many sterile sutures, staples and vials and selling them on eBay between July 2008 and Oct. 2009.
According to the report, the stolen supplies had a combined value of $302,829.
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