CONCORD

LPN charged with taking morphine

A licensed practical nurse was arrested and charged with taking morphine prescribed for a patient and giving the patient a muscle relaxant instead, authorities said.

Nina Perez, 31, of Berwick, Maine, was arrested for unlawfully possessing a controlled drug and abuse of a facility patient, according to the Attorney General’s Office.

While working as a licensed practical nurse at the Edgewood Center in Portsmouth on May 19, Perez took a quantity of morphine that was prescribed for a patient and retained it for her own use. Perez then administered the prescription drug flexeril, a muscle relaxant, to the patient as a substitute for the morphine.

Perez will be arraigned at 8 a.m. Sept. 17 at the 10th Circuit, District Division-Portsmouth.

The matter was referred to the Office of the Attorney General from the Office of the Long-Term Care Ombudsman. The Medicaid Fraud Unit, which investigates and prosecutes allegations of residence abuse at healthcare facilities, investigated Perez’s alleged crimes.

MANCHESTER

Three charged with soliciting for sex

Three men will have to appear in 9th Circuit Court, Manchester District Division, on prostitution charges as a result of their arrests Friday night.

Police said the three men were operating motor vehicles in a center city neighborhood when they approached an undercover female officer on foot. According to police, the three engaged the officer in conversation and agreed to pay her money for a sex act.

Arrested and charged with prostitution were: Kevin Lee, 42, of 322 Massabesic St.; Robert Collins, 53, of 245 Massabesic St., and Richard Beaulac, 68, of 51 Warren Ave., Goffstown.

NASHUA

No answers yet on parking lot shooting

Police said Monday that they are still investigating the shooting that happened Thursday outside of a local supermarket.

“We continue to follow any leads,” said Deputy Chief Scott Howe of the Nashua Police Department. “We are still gathering information, and we are still interviewing witnesses.”

Authorities are not yet releasing the name of the 26-year-old man who was shot in the neck at close range around 6:30 p.m. Thursday outside of Shaw’s at 300 Main St.