LAS VEGAS (KLAS) -- A Las Vegas woman accused of posing as a nurse and writing fake prescriptions for diabetic children pleaded not guilty.

Crystal Scott, 44, did not appear in Las Vegas Justice Court as the 8 News Now Investigators' camera was in the courtroom Tuesday morning. Her attorney, Jack Buchanan, appeared on her behalf and waived the formal reading of the criminal complaint.

Metro Police arrested Scott on Wednesday, as first reported by 8 News Now Investigators.

Scott faces 73 charges, including 17 counts of forgery, 12 counts each of practicing or offering to practice nursing without a license, child abuse, neglect, or endangerment, and furnishing a dangerous drug to a minor, and three counts of obtaining or using personal identity information of another to harm or for an unl

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