BOULDER, Colo. -- A nurse accused of improperly accessing patient records at several metro Denver hospitals faces five counts of identity theft and 46 counts of theft of medical records, according to court records.

Cannon Lamar Tubb, 31, worked for a now-defunct Denver nurse staffing agency that placed him as an intensive care unit nurse in numerous Centura Health facilities, the Platte Valley Medical Center and Boulder Community Hospital, according to court documents cited by the Daily Camera.

Tubb had a nursing license from Texas that was also valid in Colorado, but his license was suspended in January in connection to prescription fraud, according to an arrest affidavit.

Centura first discovered Tubb had accessed 85 confidential patient and staff records at its hospitals during a computer audit in 2010 and notified Westminster police. A detective identified at least three cases of identity theft, according to the affidavit.

Westminster police also identified a possible victim in Boulder and notified Boulder police.

One victim filed a complaint after several credit cards were taken out in her name and her husband's name and used to make purchases, including $758 for an Apple iPad, the Camera reported. Detectives traced the Internet Protocol address used to make the purchase back to Boulder Community Hospital, the affidavit said.

According to the affidavit, Tubb opened or tried to open credit card accounts at Best Buy, Home Depot, Amazon and other stores in the names of people whose records he looked at while at Boulder Community Hospital.

Hospital officials said Tubb worked at Boulder Community Hospital for 32 days between May 2010 and January 2011, the newspaper reported. The hospital ran an audit on Tubb's computer use at the hospital and sent letters to all patients whose records he looked at along with patients who were under his care.

The Boulder hospital audit found Tubb viewed demographic information for 74 patients, 46 of whom were never in the intensive care unit where Tubb worked, the affidavit said. He has also viewed financial information for some patients.

Tubb faces charges of theft of medical records involving the non-ICU patients, the Camera reported. Tubb also faces five counts of identity theft for allegedly using information from those records to open credit card accounts and make purchases.

Tubb was arrested in Texas earlier this year in relation to the Westminster cases in Adams County cases and remains in a Texas jail. He has a preliminary hearing scheduled for Oct. 4 in Adams County.