Monthly Archives: December 2017

  Joe's Discount Pharmacy in Detroit has had its controlled substance license suspended after Michigan's Department of Licensing and Regulatory Affairs (LARA) found the company has allegedly been over-dispensing controlled substances. According to a press release sent out by the department, the pharmacy "frequently dispensed commonly abused and diverted medications to patients, often in dangerous combinations." [...]

An Oahu grand jury returned an indictment this morning charging a former Waianae Coast Comprehensive Health Center employee with stealing nearly $700,000 worth of diabetes test strips. An Oahu grand jury returned an indictment this morning charging a former Waianae Coast Comprehensive Health Center employee with stealing nearly $700,000 worth of diabetes test strips. The [...]

CHARLESTON (JG-TC) -- Police officers recently arrested a home health care worker on a charge of allegedly stealing prescription medication from a local residence. The Charleston Police Department reported in a press release on Tuesday that the burglary investigation that led to the arrest of Kyle J. White, 22, of Charleston began on Dec. 22. [...]

Susan Zoeller HARRISBURG — As part of a continuing crackdown on the illegal diversion of prescription drugs, Attorney General Josh Shapiro today announced felony charges against an Armstrong County surgical practice receptionist who stole 17,917 pills, including nearly 9,200 opioid pain pills. The pills had an estimated street value of at least $80,000. Susan Zoeller, [...]

COLUMBIA, Mo. - University of Missouri police arrested Jillian Worley after officers received information that Worley was improperly taking drugs. Worley, an employee of the Women's and Children's Hospital, was accused of taking drugs from a Pyxis Machine at the hospital, police said. Officers said they found eight occurrences between June 2017 and November 2017 where Worley [...]

A Somerset woman is facing charges after being accused of stealing prescription drugs from a nursing home where she used to work. (MGN) BERLIN –- A Somerset woman is facing charges after being accused of stealing prescription drugs from a nursing home where she used to work. Christine Steinkirchner, 47, of the 300 block of [...]

The state Board of Examiners for Nursing Wednesday disciplined two nurses, including a registered nurse from Branford who stole an opioid painkiller for her own use. The RN, Alice J. Miller, admitted that on Nov. 24, 2016, she took the oxycodone, a consent order she signed with the board said. The same month, she also [...]

By Sam Lounsberry Reporter-Herald Staff Writer Windsor police arrested a 31-year-old Wellington woman Sunday on suspicion of stealing a patient's morphine pills while working as a nursing assistant for a man on hospice. Erinn Morgan Smith is facing two counts of felony drug possession, felony aggravated robbery of a controlled substance, felony theft against an [...]

LIBERTYVILLE, IL — An Advocate Condell Medical Center nurse is being accused of stealing about $500 worth of drugs from his place of work, according to a police report. Benjamin Sandholm, 33, of the 400 block of Larchmont Lane, Vernon Hills, was charged Dec. 11, the report said, with theft and unlawful acquisition of controlled [...]

MEMPHIS, Tenn. - A former pharmacy technician at Regional One was caught and arrested for illegally filling prescription drugs. It took over a year for her to get her pharmacy license revoked. FOX13 learned the initial offense happened in April of 2016. It led to an unknown number of opioids hitting the streets of Memphis, [...]