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FORT PIERCE — A registered nurse who allegedly injected herself with narcotics at Advanced Care Emergi Center where she worked faces felony charges, according to records released Friday.

Police went to the business in the 2300 block of South U.S. 1 on June 5, and a doctor said Demerol and morphine were missing. Bonnie King Bergman, identified as a 51-year-old registered nurse, reportedly was the only one with a key to the box where those drugs were kept.

The office manager reportedly called the doctor on May 30 — a Saturday — and said Bergman was at the office. The office is closed on Saturdays and Bergman had no permission to be there.

A receptionist said Bergman “looked a mess and was crying.” Bergman reportedly was writing something in a binder with the door open to the area where the narcotics were locked. Bergman reportedly got upset when she realized the receptionist was watching and threw the office key on the counter. She left with a trash bag from the nurse station.

Bergman, of the 600 block of Marsh Isle Circle in Port St. Lucie, reportedly told the doctor she had a “problem” and was checking herself into rehab.

She admitted to a detective June 23 she took morphine from the locked area and injected herself with narcotics at the clinic for two months.

Bergman was arrested Thursday on charges including possession of morphine, possession of pethidine and third-degree grand theft.

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