KINGSPORT, TN (WJHL) – Earlier this month, a Sullivan County grand jury indicted three people from Kingsport on multiple charges for their roles in a drug conspiracy, said state investigators. The Tennessee Bureau of Investigation reports special agents and a local drug task force began an investigation in June 2015 after receiving reports of prescription [...]
Lansing resident Jennifer Bicego (courtesy of www.michigan.gov)Ryan Kryska | [email protected] LANSING, MI -- Ten people from mid-Michigan are facing felony charges for their alleged role in what Michigan Attorney General Bill Schuette is calling an opioid drug ring. At the center of the ring is Lansing resident Jennifer Bicego, 30, who is accused of illegally [...]
(Photo: Courtesy of RTV6) MUNCIE, Ind. -- A Muncie anesthesiologist plead guilty Wednesday after he was charged with stealing drugs from a hospital, and using them during procedures. Prosecutors say Dr. Jose Ramos stole opiates from IU Health Ball Memorial Hospital in October 2015, and used them during seven medical procedures. Ramos plead guilty to possession [...]
The Michigan Attorney General's Office has charged 10 Lansing-area residents in connection with an prescription drug ring.(Photo: LSJ file photo) EAST LANSING - Ten Lansing-area residents have been charged in connection with an opioid prescription drug ring, the Michigan Attorney General's Office said in a release. The AG's office alleges that Jennifer Bicego, 30, of Lansing, obtained [...]
TAUNTON, Mass. (WPRI) – A pharmacy worker has been charged after admitting to stealing more than $12,000 in pills from her workplace, Taunton police said Wednesday. According to Taunton police, 27 year-old Diana Toscano, who worked as a pharmacy inventory technician at the CVS location at 7 Washington Street, admitted she had stolen the drugs [...]
A Henderson man has pleaded guilty to fraudulently distributing more than $100 million worth of prescription drugs that came from the black market. Randy Crowell, 56, pleaded guilty last week in the federal court’s Southern District of New York to one count of conspiracy to commit health care fraud. The case stretches from Utah, where [...]
Scott O'Connell Telegram & Gazette Staff @ScottOConnellTG WORCESTER – A former nurse accused of stealing painkillers at her workplace pleaded guilty to the charges in federal court Tuesday afternoon. Lea Roberge, 33, of Worcester, is to be sentenced April 5. She faces up to 10 years in prison for each of the two counts of [...]
BISMARCK, N.D. - Authorities are investigating stolen prescription medication from two patients at a Bismarck retirement home. Bismarck Police say a full pack of Oxycontin and 58 Oxycodone pills are missing. A retirement home employee says it happened sometime between Jan. 8 and 9. Police say the care center is concerned as to who is [...]
LONDON, Ky. (WYMT) - One Clay County woman is facing charges in Laurel County for forging a prescription from the place she worked at. Friday, leaders at London Women's Care received a call from a pharmacy in Manchester, concerning the legitimacy of a prescription. Arresting officer Gary Proffitt told WMYT, "They were able to find [...]
A Windsor pharmacist may have been disorganized when it came to tracking his stock, but there can be no innocent explanation for how he came to bill the province $341,000 for prescriptions police allege he never dispensed, his fraud trial heard Monday. Rocco D’Angelo, 63, is accused of defrauding the Ministry of Health with bogus [...]