A 40-year-old nurse practitioner has been sentenced to prison for her part in helping run two separate “pill mills” in Montgomery. Lilian Ifeoma Akwuba was convicted in October on 17 counts of unlawfully distributing controlled substances, four counts of health care fraud, one count of conspiring to distribute controlled substances and one count of conspiring [...]
A federal judge told a Lubbock doctor who admitted to writing out prescriptions for pain medication on stolen prescription sheets last year that he wasn’t placing her on probation for her benefit. “I’m giving you enough rope to hang yourself with,” U.S. District Judge Sam Cummings told Brianne Williams, 39, Friday after he placed her [...]
The Orange County District Attorney’s Office announced on Wednesday the arrest of 18 people in felony drug cases over the past two weeks, including two medical office managers who prosecutors say took advantage of electronic prescribing to illegally dispense more than 50,000 oxycodone pills. Prosecutors lodged the most serious charges, operating as a major trafficker [...]
A Pickens County doctor has been accused of illegally prescribing various drugs. According to arrest warrants, Dwight Jacobus, 71, was arrested Wednesday and charged with 29 drug-related crimes. Jacobus unlawfully distributed drugs including Carisoprodol (Soma), Alprazolam (Xanax), Hydrocodone (Norco), Oxycodone (Percocet), Oxycodone and Tramadol, according to warrants. The crimes happened between April 16, 2018, and [...]
A Middle Tennessee doctor arrested last week for allegedly overprescribing opioids to addicted patients was also accused of prescribing a dangerous drug cocktail to at least two additional patients in the past. The information came to light during a preliminary hearing for Dr. Gilbert Ghearing, a family practice doctor in Clay County, who was arrested last [...]
A Pittsburgh woman pleaded guilty to illegally filling 92 fake prescriptions to obtain more than 2,900 oxycodone and hydrocodone pills. Attorney General Josh Shapiro said Joyce Gallagher, 53, was arrested and charged in November 2018 after an investigation revealed she was writing fake prescriptions from an oral surgery practice under the names of her relatives. [...]
A former employee at a residential treatment program stole more than 700 prescription pills from a locked cabinet, authorities said. Police charged J. Flaxington, 32, with the thefts after an investigation began in February, according to a police report filed Wednesday in Framingham District Court. Employees of the Alexander Street Program called police on Feb. [...]
A Middle Tennessee doctor who stands accused of drug dealing at a pill mill that once overflowed with patients has been ordered by a Nashville judge to stop practicing medicine altogether. Dr. Samson Orusa, who owns a clinic in Clarksville, is now forbidden from seeing patients, writing prescriptions or supervising any nurse practitioners or other [...]
After almost seven years in business, the Newhall Pharmacy on Main Street has had its pharmacy license pulled by state authorities who found the drug store, among other violations, selling heroin-like opioid drugs to people without a prescription. Victor Law, president of the Board of Pharmacy for the Department of Consumer Affairs, signed an order [...]
A former forensic technician with the Utah County Sheriff's Office was charged Friday with stealing drugs that were supposed to be destroyed. B. Smith, 38, of Lehi, is charged in 4th District Court with three counts of possession of hydrocodone or Oxycontin, a class A misdemeanor, and three counts of theft, a class B misdemeanor. [...]