Scott O'Connell Telegram & Gazette Staff @ScottOConnellTG WORCESTER – A former nurse accused of stealing painkillers at her workplace pleaded guilty to the charges in federal court Tuesday afternoon. Lea Roberge, 33, of Worcester, is to be sentenced April 5. She faces up to 10 years in prison for each of the two counts of [...]
BISMARCK, N.D. - Authorities are investigating stolen prescription medication from two patients at a Bismarck retirement home. Bismarck Police say a full pack of Oxycontin and 58 Oxycodone pills are missing. A retirement home employee says it happened sometime between Jan. 8 and 9. Police say the care center is concerned as to who is [...]
LONDON, Ky. (WYMT) - One Clay County woman is facing charges in Laurel County for forging a prescription from the place she worked at. Friday, leaders at London Women's Care received a call from a pharmacy in Manchester, concerning the legitimacy of a prescription. Arresting officer Gary Proffitt told WMYT, "They were able to find [...]
A Windsor pharmacist may have been disorganized when it came to tracking his stock, but there can be no innocent explanation for how he came to bill the province $341,000 for prescriptions police allege he never dispensed, his fraud trial heard Monday. Rocco D’Angelo, 63, is accused of defrauding the Ministry of Health with bogus [...]
OSAGE | A Mason City nurse authorities say stole powerful painkillers from patients in two North Iowa health-care facilities faces criminal charges. Keri Lea Martinez, 33, was charged with four felony counts of prohibited acts, two misdemeanor counts of tampering with records and one misdemeanor count of fifth-degree theft. Martinez, who is free on bond, [...]
A plea / trial setting hearing in the case of Anne Marie Coke, 36, of Marshall, has been set for Monday, Feb. 27, at 11 a.m. Coke appeared before the Division IV Circuit Court Monday, Jan. 9, facing charges of 134 felony counts of fraudulently attempting to obtain a controlled substance. The instances of oxycodone [...]
Abington Hospital-Jefferson Health has agreed to pay $510,000 to the U.S. government to settle allegations that lax controls allowed a hospital pharmacist to steal more than 35,000 pills during a three-year period. The hospital also has agreed to implement a program that would prevent, identify and address future diversions, the U.S. Attorney's Office announced Monday. "Abington [...]
BUFFALO, N.Y (WKBW) - Doctor Albert Cowie, a board-certified radiologist from Amherst, is scheduled to be sentenced in U.S. Federal District Court in Buffalo for illegally prescribing narcotics. Last year, Dr. Cowie pleaded guilty to obtaining controlled substances by fraud and health care fraud before U.S. District Judge Lawrence Vilardo. The charges carry a maximum penalty of 10 years [...]
Donnie Joe Goodman III, Dawn Marie Lecuyer's mug shot was unavailable.(Photo: Submitted) A Maryland man and woman were found in possession of 75 false prescriptions in November, according to affidavits filed with District Judge James Miner. Police were called to Giant Food Stores in the 800 block of Baltimore Street in Hanover after a pharmacist [...]
By Stewart Bishop Law360, New York (January 6, 2017, 6:09 PM EST) -- The owner of a Utah-based wholesale distribution company on Friday admitted to fraudulently distributing to pharmacies over $100 million worth of prescription drugs that he bought on the black market. Nevada resident Randy "Roger" Crowell pled guilty before U.S. District Judge Edgardo [...]