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‘It rubs the lotion on its skin’: Man accused of stealing a buttload of human skin from hospital
05.30.2014
01:05 pm
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Sweet Jeebus, I don’t even know where to begin with this ‘cause it’s so far out there. Fifty-four-year-old Gary Dudek of of Wallingford, Pennsylvania has been charged with allegedly stealing human skin and tampering with records. He’s accused of stealing skin grafts from Mercy Philadelphia Hospital between November 2011 and July 2013 and no one was the wiser! The hospital says he stole more than $350k’s worth of human hide between those years.

According to investigators, Dudek worked as a sales representative for Organogenesis, a Massachusetts-based regenerative medicine company, between September 2006 and September 2013. Police say he was in charge of managing accounts for Mercy Hospital’s bio-science department and that he also supplied the hospital with skin grafts.

Due to his position, Dudek had an “open purchase order” which allowed him to order the skin grafts whenever he wanted. However, police say Dudek made several unauthorized purchases, and Mercy never received the grafts, leading the hospital to lose an estimated $357,000.

Officials say Dudek was caught twice on surveillance cameras allegedly stealing skin grafts and transferring them to his car. Yikes!

Dudek’s lawyer Eugene Tinari said in a statement that, “the issue should be a civil court matter and that the hospital has yet to prove his client did anything wrong.”

Dudek is out on bail.

According to investigators, “they don’t know what Dudek did with the skin or the motive behind the alleged thefts.” 

I don’t think they really wanna know, either…

 
Via NBC Philadelphia and Arbroath

Posted by Tara McGinley
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05.30.2014
01:05 pm
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