The former chief operating officer of two urgent care clinics in Swampscott and Beverly used more than 60 unwitting patients to fraudulently obtain opioid-containing cough syrups and the drug tramadol to feed his own addiction, he admitted in court on Tuesday. A Salem District Court judge agreed to a defense request to continue the charges [...]
A second nurse has been charged with stealing fentanyl from a Johnson County hospital. A federal grand jury indicted Alec Ramirez, 30, with possession of fentanyl, tampering and other related crimes. Ramirez was a registered nurse at Menorah Medical Center in Overland Park. According to court documents, Ramirez removed vials of fentanyl and hydromorphone, a [...]
A 52 year old ANGELA JARABAK appeared by Zoom video today in Courtroom 102 before Her Honour, Justice Claudia Belda-Perez to plead guilty to theft under $5000. JARABAK is with her lawyer Kevin Matthews and Provincial Crown Attorney Stella Vallelunga is also by video ADMITTED FACTS Management at the Southbridge Pinewood Court Long Term Care [...]
A former anesthesiologist at Buffalo General Medical Center pleaded guilty Wednesday to a reduced charge after being caught altering patients' prescriptions to illegally obtain the narcotic fentanyl for his personal use. John R. LoFaso, 35, of Williamsville, pleaded guilty to disorderly conduct, a violation, after successfully completing a court-supervised diversion program for drug offenders. LoFaso [...]
A former Nebraska City nurse was fined $5,000 and ordered to three years probation after entering a plea to acquiring controlled substances by fraud. Skye Parde, 38, was arrested after Ambassador Health Assisted Living in Nebraska City reported the theft of narcotic pain medication that had been repeatedly filled from a pharmacy, but not logged [...]
A postal worker who tracked, stole and opened mail that he suspected contained drugs and then kept any narcotics that he found pleaded guilty Friday. Shawn Herron, 44, of Whitman, pleaded guilty to conspiracy to possess cocaine with intent to distribute and theft of mail by a postal employee, the U.S. attorney's office in Boston [...]
A Carterville man was recently sentenced to four years of probation for drug diversion and health care fraud charges. According to the U.S. Attorney’s Office for the Southern District of Illinois, 42-year-old Joseph M. Mattingly was also ordered to pay a $500 fine along with a $200 special assessment. According to court documents, Mattingly diverted [...]
A Colorado nurse was sentenced to prison for abusing his position of trust by taking fentanyl from a hospital to use while on the job. Advanced Nurse Practitioner and Registered Nurse Kurt Vasquez, 41, was sentenced to three months' imprisonment for illegally obtaining fentanyl through fraud and deception while working in the catheterization lab at [...]
A nurse who worked in a Bridgeton hospital was sentenced Tuesday to two years of probation for stealing pain pills from an automated dispensing machine. Jessica Marie Powell, of St. Louis County, stole hydromorphone and oxycodone between Feb. 13, 2017, and Feb. 14, 2018, at DePaul Hospital in Bridgeton while working for Davita Hospital Services in [...]
A licensed practical nurse from Stafford has been sentenced to 20 months in federal prison for ingesting liquid morphine that had been prescribed to a dying patient in a Massachusetts nursing home and replacing the missing morphine with water that diluted the patient’s dose. The nurse, Danielle D. Works, 42, received the sentence last week [...]