A Co Armagh nurse has been warned it will be “almost impossible” for her to escape a jail sentence after she admitted stealing painkillers and sedatives from the NHS. At Craigavon Magistrates’ Court, 28-year-old Stacey Bryars pleaded guilty to nine charges of the theft of medication belonging to the NHS. Defence barrister Aaron revealed there [...]
HUNTINGTON, W.Va. – A former physician who practiced in Barboursville pleaded guilty to a federal drug charge, announced United States Attorney Carol Casto. Gregory Donald Chaney, 52, entered his guilty plea to obtaining a controlled substance by fraud. Chaney was the owner of Tri-State Medical Center, which is now out of business. On December 1, [...]
A certified nursing assistant in Port Charlotte is accused of stealing narcotics and jewelry from a patient. The Charlotte County Sheriff's Office arrested 33-year-old Laura Jackson on charges of grand theft and possession of a controlled substance without a prescription, after stealing from a resident at South Port Square, a Brookdale Community. "They pay a [...]
A former Wagga nurse has been barred from the medical profession for stealing thousands of vials of morphine for personal use. Sheree Turner cooked the books at Calvary Hospital to cover up the theft of 2007 doses of morphine over three years and four months. The theft amounted to “unsatisfactory professional conduct” and she cannot [...]
HelioMetrics Comment: When reading the article below, you have to wonder how she got access to all those drugs? Based on the fact that she is a nurse and worked at a hospital, an easy assumption was that she diverted the drugs from the hospital and patients that she was caring for. We will have [...]
Hickory Police have released more information regarding the arrest of 21-year-old Fantazia Iesha Weeks of Morrow, Georgia. She was arrested at about 11:40 a.m. yesterday (December 29) on two felony counts of attempting to obtain a controlled substance by forgery or fraud. She was arrested after Police responded to the Viewmont Pharmacy on 13th Avenue [...]
AVON LAKE, OH - Theft, Dec. 21 - Morphine was stolen from a 88-year-old nursing home patient at a group home on Webber Road. The woman's nurse and social worker reported the theft. HelioMetrics Comment: The information above is from a "police news wire". This means there isn't a full story to go along with [...]
For nearly half a year, a Kmart pharmacist stole about 1,400 prescription pills from the store’s pharmacy, the Alachua County Sheriff’s Office said. Jennifer Taylor Gailey, 31, stole about 700 Soma pills and 700 Tylenol with Codeine #3 pills from the store, located on the 900 block of NW 76th Blvd., according to the report. [...]
The Virginia Board of Pharmacy's history of putting pharmacists with troubling behavior on probation, and allowing them to continue to practice while getting therapy or self-reporting additional errors, is not isolated to a single practitioner's history. In a News Leader statewide review of all 2016 Virginia case decisions, not a single pharmacist was suspended for [...]
A Keene dentist whose ability to issue prescriptions for controlled drugs was suspended by the N.H. Board of Dental Examiners in November 2014 was recently sentenced on drug charges in Cheshire County Superior Court. Dr. Ayman A. Jacobs, 54, of Keene was found guilty of two charges of misdemeanor possession of an unspecified controlled drug [...]