Things tend to disappear in Roanoke, which probably makes the community’s legal apparatus all the more sensitive to instances of theft. A former nurses’ assistant has been sentenced to five years in prison after she was found guilty on Tuesday of stealing four wedding bands from patients she helped care for at the Virginia Veterans Care Center. During a tearful testimony, Ashley Michelle Sweeney explained to a judge that she’d taken the rings to help pay for a drug habit, because that’s the only way this story could get any more depressing.