WASHINGTON (AP) — Federal authorities are stepping up investigations at Department of Veterans Affairs medical centers due to a sharp increase in opioid theft, missing prescriptions or unauthorized drug use by VA employees since 2009, according to government data obtained by The Associated Press. Doctors, nurses or pharmacy staff at federal hospitals — the vast [...]
By Associated Press, Government data obtained by The Associated Press show that incidents of drug loss or theft at federal hospitals have jumped nearly tenfold since 2009 to 2,457 last year, spurred by widespread opioid abuse in the U.S. Federal authorities report that doctors, nurses or pharmacy staff — mostly in the Department of Veterans [...]
COLOMA TOWNSHIP, Mich. (NEWSCHANNEL 3) – A former Coloma Township Police Officer has been charged after investigators say he stole drugs. Kraig Mitchell allegedly stole medication from the pill drop off box at the Coloma Township Police Department. He’s also accused of stealing a heroin-fentanyl mixture from the scene of a drug overdose death. Mitchell [...]
A Staunton man who worked at the Fishersville UPS facility was arrested Thursday on dozens of drug charges stemming from the theft of parcels mailed from U.S. Department of Veterans Affairs pharmacies. Police say Schuylar A. Lotts, 22, stole 3,500 oxycodone tablets — the generic version of the brand name narcotic painkiller Percocet. Oxycodone is the active opioid ingredient [...]
CTV London Published Friday, February 17, 2017 2:27PM EST Last Updated Friday, February 17, 2017 2:30PM EST Five people are facing various charges following a London police investigation into prescription fraud across the city. On Wednesday, police made the arrests and laid charges against three men and two women between 25 and 45-years-old, all from [...]
BALLSTON SPA -- A Ballston Spa woman who was arrested last fall for stealing drugs at the pharmacy where she worked pleaded guilty Thursday to a felony charge. Mary B. Murphy worked at the Rite Aid store in Corinth when she was arrested last October after police learned she had been forging documents to get [...]
CAPE CORAL, Fla. A 47-year-old man was arrested for allegedly forging fake prescriptions, the Cape Coral Police Department said. John Dimaria, of 2801 S.W. 29th Court, is facing fraud and drug possession charges for using his children’s names to acquire prescription drugs to sell, police said. The pharmacist at the CVS at 1611 N.E. Pine [...]
A Forest Lake nurse who pretended to check on a patient so he could steal the man’s medication evaded jail time for the offense. Gregory Thomas Welcher, 30, was sentenced in Ramsey County District Court Thursday to five years probation on one count of felony-level theft. He also was ordered to spend one day in [...]
A home health nurse is accused of stealing prescription medication from an 82-year-old woman battling Stage IV liver cancer. (Image: Hamilton County Sheriff's Department / MGN) SODDY DAISY, Tenn. — A home health nurse is accused of stealing prescription medication from an 82-year-old woman battling Stage IV liver cancer. "I would have thought, of all [...]
The Ocoee Police Department arrested two individuals and discovered six prescription pads totaling 111 blank prescription forms in a home Wednesday. The discovery was the result of an investigation Ocoee PD launched after a local pharmacy notified police they’d been given a fraudulent prescription on Feb. 1, said Ocoee Police Sgt. Mark Olson. The investigation, [...]