A registered nurse, Desiree Ulibarri, 32, of Albuquerque, was sentenced yesterday afternoon in federal court in Albuquerque, N.M., for her conviction on a prescription opioid conspiracy charge.
Ulibarri will serve 36 months in federal prison followed by three years of supervised release, after pleading guilty to the indictment on June 15, 2017, and admitting to conspiring with a co-worker to illegally distribute prescription pills.
The investigation of this case began on July 21, 2016, after Ulibarri’s employer, a hospice care provider, contacted DEA to report suspicions that Ulibarri was engaged in prescription pill diversion.
On July 22, 2016, DEA agents seized 80 10-mg oxycodone pills from Ulibarri, which she obtained from packages she retrieved from Federal Express.
According to the indictment, Ulibarri and co-defendant Annabel Debari committed the crimes in Bernalillo County, N.M., between April 2016 and July 2016.
Debari entered a guilty plea to similar charges on Dec. 9, 2016, and admitted to diverting at least 750 10-milligram oxycodone pills in furtherance of Ulibarri’s diversion scheme.
The case was investigated by the Tactical Diversion Squad of the DEA in Albuquerque.
Ulibarri’s employer became suspicious of her actions because she was documenting patients’ prescriptions in a way that made it difficult to reconcile the medications and because she was picking up patients’ prescription pills at Federal Express instead of having the medication delivered to the patients.
Key Facts
- State: New Mexico
- Category: Drug Trafficking
- Source: DOJ Press Release â†â€â€
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