A Walgreens employee was arrested Wednesday for allegedly stealing prescription pads and writing herself prescriptions for Percocet. Deane Burkhart, 45, of Wallingford reportedly received 174 pills during several fraudelent transactions in which she'd forged the name of a local physician, Hamden police said. Burkhart, an employee of the Hamden Walgreens at 2505 Whitney Ave., turned [...]
HelioMetric Comment: You hear of drug diversion in all different types of facilities, from healthcare, prisons, schools etc... but this is the first that I have seen/heard about diversion of medication at this level inside of a professional sports team. This just proves that ANYPLACE that stores medication can have issues. Some of what is [...]
UPDATE 3/9: Waukesha Springs Health and Rehabilitation Center's Executive Director, Mar'que Anderson, confirms the nurse charged with stealing pills was immediately fired. Anderson says the nurse has not been allowed back in the facility since the drug theft and overdose last December. Anderson also says no patients were harmed as a result of the drug [...]
ST. LOUIS • A former resident at St. Louis University Hospital wrote fraudulent prescriptions to obtain pain pills and other drugs for himself and others, a federal indictment claims. That former resident, Kyle Betts, was indicted last week on three felony charges of obtaining a controlled substance by fraud or forgery. Betts' lawyer, Scott Rosenblum, said [...]
A Blair woman is accused of stealing hydrocodone pills from an employee at a Blair nursing home. Nichole Frye, 36, is charged with intentionally violating the narcotic drug law, a Class IV felony; and two counts of possession of a controlled substance, a Class IV felony. Frye was scheduled for arraignment in Washington County Court [...]
HONESDALE - Janine Edwards, Wayne County District Attorney, announced March 2nd that Karen Feldner, age 56, of Honesdale, was arrested and arraigned that day on charges of Theft of Fentanyl, a felony of the third degree and other charges. A large quantity of fentanyl vials were reported stolen from Mountain Laurel Surgery Center, 1860 Fair [...]
SYRAC-- USE, N.Y. -- A Syracuse woman who stole painkillers from a nursing home patient has turned in her nursing license. Antoinette Muhl, a licensed practical nurse, stole hydrocodone tablets from a patient in 2015 while working at the Sunnyside Care Center in East Syracuse. As a result she was convicted of petit larceny, a [...]
Rachel Smith(Photo: Metro Corrections) A Jeffersontown woman was arrested on drug possession charges Saturday after she told police she had stolen anesthetics from the animal hospital where she worked, according to an arrest citation. Jeffersontown police responded shortly before 6 p.m. Saturday to a report of a woman sleeping in her car at the Five [...]
GREENE COUNTY, Va. (WRIC) — A former Greene County employee was recently arrested and charged with stealing money and medication from the county’s school system. Sasha Brown, 45, was arrested and charged with grand larceny of currency belonging to Green County Public Schools, possession of a schedule I or II controlled substance and wrongful use, disposal, concealment [...]
HONESDALE – The former nursing director at Mountain Laurel Surgery Center on Fair Avenue was charged Thursday with tampering with nearly 100 vials of fentanyl, an action that prompted a health scare and resulted in several patients being tested for the HIV virus and hepatitis. Karen Marie Feldner, 56, of Honesdale, who was fired by [...]