A local pharmacist has been charged with stealing thousands of dollars worth of prescriptions from a sample closet at Heritage Pharmacy, located at North Ninth Street in Bismarck. Terry Kristensen, 63, is charged with 10 counts of felony theft, each carrying a maximum fine of $10,000 and five years in prison. On Tuesday, he appeared [...]
Oxycodone pills and other prescription drug bottles.(Photo: Illustration/Thomas E. Franklin/NorthJersey.com) One of the largest pharmaceutical distributors in the nation will pay $150 million and halt sales at distribution centers in four states for turning a “blind eye” to suspicious orders of prescription painkillers that are at the core of the nationwide opioid abuse epidemic, authorities [...]
A NURSE strolled out of court to loud applause after being acquitted of forging bogus hospital records to snatch sedatives. A jury of seven men and five women found Leona Bellhouse not guilty of pinching a ‘large quantity’ of midazolam while she was working at the John Radcliffe’s Hospital’s gynaecology department. Sighs of relief were [...]
A Lancashire nurse who was arrested in 2015 after she was found guilty of stealing and distributing prescription drugs received her jail sentence Monday. Amie Heller, 30, will serve three years and eight months after she admitted to stealing and selling zopilone, tramadol, dihydrocodeine and codeine from the Royal Blackburn Hospital where she worked. The [...]
PHOENIX – In an unrelenting quest for painkillers, Arizona pill seekers embark on almost daily missions to obtain fake or stolen prescriptions and shop their pain among doctors. Sometimes, pharmacists report, patients try to get “multiple, multiple narcotic” prescriptions from “multiple, multiple doctors.” Though the Arizona State Board of Pharmacy and lawmakers have built ways [...]
JACKSON COUNTY, MS (WLOX) - A Vancleave woman and her husband have been sentenced to prison for the parts they played in a prescription fraud and embezzlement scheme involving a now bankrupt cancer treatment center. A Jackson County jury found Sherrie Bennett, 57, guilty on 14 counts of distributing prescription drugs and bankruptcy fraud on [...]
TULSA, Okla. (AP) — A 26-year-old Oklahoma paramedic has pleaded guilty in federal court to taking vials of painkillers from her assigned ambulances and replacing the contents with saline solution. Federal prosecutors in Tulsa say that Sara Nicole Hogsett pleaded guilty to tampering with consumer products. Prosecutors alleged that between April and May of 2016, [...]
A Morgan City man was one of two Louisiana men sentenced Friday for their roles in a prescription drug fraud scheme in Pennsylvania that both men pleaded guilty to in September 2016, according to an IRS official. Troy Tapia of Morgan City and Anthony Rouse III of Raceland, who pleaded guilty Sept. 27 to the [...]
PUNTA GORDA, Fla. — A 39-year-old home health nurse was arrested after surveillance footage appeared to show her stealing medication, the Charlotte County Sheriff’s Office said. Jessica Brown allegedly stole a large portion of her patient’s anti-anxiety pills while in the patient’s home. On Dec. 31, the patient reported that a recently filled prescription of Lorazepam was missing [...]
1/12/2017 NEWKIRK — A warrant is issued for Devin Nicole Walker, 26, Ponca City, by the Kay County District Court. Walker was charged on Dec. 29 with a felony count of larceny of morphine. Ponca City police report Walker is accused of stealing morphine from the Walmart pharmacy where she was employed. Police report that [...]