Jeremy David Duke(Photo: Mississippi Bureau of Narcotics) In the statewide crackdown on opioid abuse, officials announced Wednesday that a Jackson area nurse has been arrested for embezzling the drugs. Mississippi Bureau of Narcotics Director John Dowdy said Jeremy David Duke, 32, of Mt. Olive, is charged with embezzlement and was processed into the Hinds County jail [...]
An intensive care unit nurse at J.F.K. Medical Center in Atlantis is facing drug charges in St. Lucie County. The sheriff's office arrested 36-year-old Amanda E. Ingersoll of Port St. Lucie. They accuse her of selling prescription morphine drugs without a license. “We believe that she stole the drugs from her employer and then sold [...]
Anne Marie Coke Contributed image On a total of 36 felony counts, Anne Marie Coke, 36, of Marshall, received a 30-year prison sentence Monday, May 22, after reaching a plea agreement with the Saline County Prosecutor's Office. Coke pleaded guilty to 33 separate counts of fraudulently attempting to obtain controlled substance, a class D felony, [...]
FARMINGTON HILLS, Mich. - A Farmington Hills doctor was sentenced Thursday to 19 years in prison for participating in a conspiracies to distribute prescription pills and commit health care fraud, acting U.S. Attorney Daniel Lemisch announced. Adelfo Pamatmat, 71, was sentenced by U.S. District Judge Robert H. Cleland. Pamatmat and two co-defendants were found guilty after [...]
Michael Fishman ST. GEORGE ISLAND, Fla. (WCTV) -- A man arrested in Franklin County for having dozens of oxycodone pills is a prominent addiction treatment doctor at a recovery center in Atlanta. Dr. Michael Fishman was arrested May 11th at a home in The Plantation at St. George Island. The Franklin County Sheriff's Office was [...]
HENDERSONVILLE, Tenn. (WKRN) – A Hendersonville nurse was arrested charged with possession with intent to sell and deliver a schedule IV drug. According to the Hendersonville Police affidavit, Sandra Denise Jackson is accused of using juveniles to sell Xanax bars. Jackson is a long-time nurse who has had run-ins with the law before. Her latest [...]
Department of Public Safety Commissioner Marshall Fisher, flanked by Mississippi Bureau of Narcotics Director John Dowdy (right) and Deputy Director Steven Maxwell (left) talks about the state's opioid epidemic.(Photo: Therese Apel/ The Clarion-Ledger) During the month of March, the Mississippi Bureau of Narcotics worked a drug overdose case every other day, on average. MBN Director [...]
0 Updated at 2:29 pm, May 16th, 2017 Nicholas Sherman IDAHO FALLS — A former Madison Memorial Hospital intern has pleaded guilty to forging stolen prescriptions from the hospital to get hydrocodone. Nicholas Sherman, 29, pleaded guilty Tuesday in Bonneville County to three felony charges of obtaining a controlled substance by deception, misrepresentation, fraud or forgery. [...]
A former pharmacy supervisor of UConn's Student Health Services accused of forging prescriptions and ordering items through the pharmacy for his personal use will serve 20 months in prison. Police started investigating Michael Olzinski after an April 2015 internal audit found that a large number of diapers and other items for infants and toddlers had [...]
DEA alleges nurse practitioner wrote prescriptions for dead patients Andrei Marchenko no longer writing prescriptions amid investigation Updated: 12:09 PM MDT May 16, 2017 ALBUQUERQUE, N.M. — The Drug Enforcement Administration is investigating Andrei Marchenko, a certified nurse practitioner at the Medicus Family Practice Clinic. According to a search warrant filed in federal court, at [...]