Nurse Who Jumped Bail in 1992 Is Arrested in Mexico : Crime: She had been indicted for tampering with patients’ injections.

A Lomita nurse who claimed that she orchestrated her own arrest to get treatment for recurring headaches--and who then jumped bail in 1992 and fled to Mexico--has been arrested in Puerto Vallarta, the FBI announced Friday.

Lissette Christina Nukida, 35, was arrested Thursday by Mexican authorities, the FBI and the United States Marshal’s Service almost three years to the day after she was indicted by a federal grand jury for tampering with the intravenous injections of her patients, FBI Special Agent Charlie J. Parsons said.

Nukida was accused by the grand jury of illegally administering insulin taken from a storeroom, causing two patients at the Casa Colina Peninsula Rehabilitation Center to suffer accelerated heart rates, increased blood pressure and dangerously low levels of blood sugar.

Although the patients recovered, Nukida was indicted after telling authorities that she had contaminated the injections so she could be sent to prison and receive treatment for her headaches, FBI agents said. In May, 1992, she was released on bail from the Metropolitan Detention Center in Los Angeles and fled before her trial, authorities said.

Nukida was arrested along with her husband, Roger David Brown, 41, whom she had married while in jail. Parsons said the couple apparently fled together.