Police Say She Took Patient Files, Fled
When Gisela Maria Torres was fired from her job at a Temple Terrace medical office Friday, she didn’t go quietly, police say.
She caused a ruckus, refused to leave the office, and when she did leave, she took patient files and billing information, according to a criminal report affidavit.
Torres’ termination took place shortly before 3:30 p.m. at a medical office at 10320 N. 56th St., according to the affidavit, which offers the police version of what happened next.
After she was fired, Torres, 27, created such a scene that the office manager called police. When they arrived, Torres walked off with the files, police said.
She went to the office parking lot, dumped on of the files, then got in her car and drove away, according to police.
A few minutes later, police say, she was pulled over near Serena Drive and 50th Street.
When police searched Torres and her car, they found more than the file.
Police say they found 14 oxycodone pills in a bottle in her purse. When police called the doctor whose name was listed on the bottle, the doctor said she was out of state and did not write the prescription.
Torres also had a broken hydrocodone pill wrapped up in a blue piece of paper, police said.
When Torres opened her car doo, police also found a 12-inch knife in a sheath wedged between the door and the seat, police said. Torres said it belonged to her boyfriend.
After she was arrested, Torres told police she took the files and she wrote the prescription for the oxycodone herself, according to police.
Torres was charged with theft of trade secrets, possession of a controlled substance, burglary of an occupied structure, carrying a concealed weapon, trafficking in illegal drugs of 14 to 18 grams and obtaining a controlled substance by fraud.
She was being held Saturday at Orient Road Jail, with no bail set, according to jail records.
