The State - News from March 18, 1988

The state Consumer Affairs Department announced that a 39-year-old Anaheim truck driver was arrested and charged with felony theft and embezzlement of a state examination that was to have been administered to nursing candidates earlier this year. Neal W. Redfern, an employee of Consolidated Freightways in the City of Industry, was taken into custody and will be arraigned in Los Angeles Municipal Court, according to department spokesman John C. Lungren Jr. The state Board of Registered Nursing postponed the test for 8,600 nurse candidates after investigators found a box of exams en route to a test location in Pomona had been opened and there was “strong evidence” that the tests had been photocopied or tampered with. New examinations were administered on March 8 and 9.