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据芝加哥论坛报报道，法庭记录显示，一位前医疗器械销售代表在从芝加哥东部一家医院偷走价值40000美元的手术设备，因被监控录像拍下被捕。

法庭记录显示，芝加哥35岁的迈克尔·J·曼加诺（Michael J.Mangano）周三在苏必利尔湖（Lake Superior Court）被指控犯有盗窃罪，这是一项6级重罪，与上个月圣凯瑟琳医院失踪的三个外科医疗设备有关。

4月26日，外科主任报告说他们在医院找不到病房。根据证词，主任还说“类似的外科设备已经从蒙斯特的社区医院被盗”。

该证词称，这些手术设备价值约4万美元，“在手术中用于烧灼，每天都用于医院的手术。”

据证词显示，监控录像显示，4月20日，前医疗设备销售代表曼加诺从医院偷走走了这三个设备。证词称，在盗窃发生时，他穿着“医院器械销售代表通常穿的衣服”。

据证词显示，一名医院工作人员说，她**后一次见到曼加诺是在2018年。证词宣誓书上说，他“知道手术室的位置和手术室的面积”。法庭记录称，曼加诺没有得到带走这些物品的许可。

该证词称，肯塔基州一名外科和医疗设备供应商的雇员告诉警方，“他的公司购买了上述被盗的电外科动力装置”。

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former sales representative was captured on surveillance video taking $40,000 worth of surgical equipment from an East Chicago hospital, according to court records.

Michael J. Mangano, 35, of Chicago, was charged Wednesday in Lake Superior Court with theft, a level 6 felony, in connection with three surgical equipment units that went missing from St. Catherine Hospital last month, court records show.

On April 26, the director of surgical services reported that they couldn’t find the units in the hospital, a probable cause affidavit states. The director also said “that similar surgical equipment units had been stolen” from Community Hospital in Munster, according to the affidavit.

The surgical units, which were valued at about $40,000, “are used for cauterizing during surgeries and are used everyday in their surgeries at the hospital,” the affidavit states.

Surveillance video showed Mangano, a former medical equipment sales representative, taking the three units from the hospital on April 20, according to the affidavit. At the time of the theft, he was wearing clothing “typically worn by sales representatives at the hospital,” the affidavit states.

A hospital staff member said she last saw Mangano at the hospital in 2018, according to the affidavit.. He “knew the location of the operating rooms and the operating room area,” the affidavit states. Mangano did not have permission to take the items, court records state.

An employee with a surgical and medical equipment supplier in Kentucky told police that “his business purchased one of the above stolen electrosurgical power units,” the affidavit states.