By Sarah Motter & Amanda Alvarado

A nurse lost her license and is banned for life from federally funded hospitals after she forged opioid prescriptions.

Brooke Haller, 41, pleaded guilty to a single count of possession of a controlled substance by deception and subterfuge, according to the U.S. Attorney’s Office for the District of Kansas.

Haller worked as a registered nurse at a hospital in Kansas City, Kansas, where she stole a nurse practitioner’s prescription pad and DEA number, according to prosecutors.

Starting in March 2024, Haller used the stolen information to write forged prescriptions for Percocet and oxycodone. She listed her relatives’ names on the prescriptions and filled the prescriptions at pharmacies in Kansas and Missouri.

In October 2024, a pharmacy called the hospital to verify an oxycodone prescription allegedly written by the nurse practitioner.

The nurse practitioner told investigators she only writes electronic prescriptions and had never spoken to Haller or given her access to her prescription pad or DEA number.

Haller realized she was caught and called the hospital multiple times, pretending to be a pharmacy employee and claiming the prescription questions were made in error, according to court records.

Haller spoofed the pharmacy’s phone number, disguising it and posing as a man named “Peter,” but staff recognized her voice.

The Drug Enforcement Administration said Haller admitted to forging 13 prescriptions.

Court records show she obtained:

- 90 Percocet tablets from a Kansas pharmacy

- 540 oxycodone tablets from a Kansas pharmacy

- 1,350 oxycodone tablets from a Missouri pharmacy

Haller was sentenced to three years’ probation and ordered to pay a $5,000 fine. She also lost her nursing license and received a lifetime ban from working at any hospital that receives federal funding.