Assistant, 42, Is Charged With Impersonating a Dentist To Pull 13 Teeth From a Drugged Patient and Stealing $23K From the Office
Daily Mail | 7/16/21 | Snejana Farberov

Yowch!

A Nevada woman has been arrested, accused of burglarizing the dental office where she worked as an assistant and extracting 13 teeth from a patient – despite the fact that she is not a licensed dentist.

In the UK, this would have been heard in Crown court.

Laurel Eich, 42, from Reno, was being held in the Washoe County jail on Friday on $20,000 bond.

Eich has been charged with two counts of burglary and one count each . . .

COSTELLO: “One count each”?

ABBOTT: Yes, one count, Eich.

COSTELLO: So who was the other person?

ABBOTT: There was no other person. Eich got one count.

COSTELLO: Oh, you pronounce it “Eich”?

ABBOTT: Yes.

COSTELLO: So the charge was one count “Eich”?

ABBOTT: No, no: it was “One count each.”

. . . of grand larceny, conspiracy to commit burglary, and perform surgery on another without a license. She also faces three counts of violation of probation or condition of a suspended sentence.

According to the Washoe County Sheriff’s Office, patrol deputies responded to an after-hours burglar alarm at a dental office on Sun Valley Boulevard May 3, and found the door ajar and a back window broken.

Inside, the deputies discovered that $22,861 in cash and checks had been stolen from a drawer.

Illegally extracted, you might say . . .

But wait: how did they deduce that amount from an empty drawer?

During the investigation, detectives identified Eich, who worked at the office as a dental assistant, as a person of interest in the burglary, and also learned that she performed 13 tooth extractions on one patient at an earlier date, according to the sheriff’s office.

So many questions about this patient…

Authorities said Eich admitted to multiple people, including detectives, that she performed the medical procedure and used anesthetic disposed of by the dental office.

… and about the other people she admitted it to…