In this reserve photo provided by the Ozaukee County Sheriff’s Office on Monday, January 4, 2021 in Port Washington, Wisconsin, Steven Brandenburg is shown. The Wisconsin pharmacist, accused of intentionally spoiling hundreds of doses of the coronavirus vaccine, convinced that the world was “collapsing” told police that he tried to ruin hundreds of doses of the coronavirus vaccine because he felt the injections would transform DNA of people, according to court documents released Monday.
PORT WASHINGTON, Wis. (AP) – Prosecutors have accused a Wisconsin pharmacist accused of spoiling the COVID-19 vaccine with a misdemeanor for material damage.
Online court records indicate that Steven Brandenburg was charged Tuesday at the Ozaukee County Court. Police arrested Brandenburg on December 31 as part of an investigation of 57 damaged vials of the Modern vaccine at Advocate Aurora Health in Grafton, about 20 miles north of Milwaukee.
The investigators believe that Brandenburg intentionally removed the bottles from the refrigeration and did not replace them. Detectives wrote in court records that Brandenburg is an admitted conspiracy theorist and was convinced that vaccines would transform people’s DNA.
The destroyed vials contained sufficient doses to inoculate more than 500 people.
Brandenburg’s lawyer declined to comment.
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