A Detroit nurse received a four-year prison sentence this week after she was caught stealing painkillers at a hospital where she worked. Mary Cheatham, 42, of Ypsilanti, was caught tampering with vials and syringes containing the painkiller hydromorphone at DMC Sinai-Grace Hospital in 2020. Authorities say she would steal the painkillers for herself and then [...]
A Clear Lake nurse is going to federal prison for stealing fentanyl from elderly patients. Ryan William Thornton has been ordered to spend nine months behind bars and then serve one year of supervised release. Thornton pleaded guilty in U.S. District Court for the Northern District of Iowa to acquiring a controlled substance by misrepresentation, [...]
While Jennifer Hall was employed at Hedrick Medical Center, the rate of cardiac collapses rose from one per year to 18 in 18 months. A former respiratory therapist at Hedrick Medical Center in Chillicothe, Missouri, has pleaded guilty to first-degree involuntary manslaughter and second-degree assault of two patients. Although Jennifer Hall, 42, pleaded guilty in [...]
An Iowa nurse accused of stealing patient painkillers on three separate occasions has agreed to surrender her license. Last October, police and paramedics were called to the Coon Rapids home of R. Landon, an Iowa-licensed nurse, in response to a call about a suspected drug overdose. According to state records, they found Landon at the [...]
A disgraced Florida nurse of nearly 30 years has been convicted of stealing hundreds of vials of fentanyl and using the drug for herself. Catherine Shannon Dunton, 54, took 450 doses of fentanyl, injected herself with them and then refilled the vials with saline solution over a three-month period between February and April 2022. She was [...]
Patients in pain at an Illinois medical rehabilitation center were given diluted liquid morphine as their nurse took the rest for herself, authorities said. One patient, for example, received a shot from a morphine bottle with only about 26% of the declared drug amount, according to an April 11 news release from the U.S. Attorney’s [...]
A former nurse was sentenced to 12 months and a day in prison for stealing fentanyl from two hospitals where she worked. Faith Naccarato, 42, of Kansas City, Missouri, pleaded guilty to two counts of tampering with a consumer product and two counts of possession of fentanyl by deception and subterfuge. According to court documents, [...]
A former Missoula nurse who admitted to diverting opioid drugs while working at St. Patrick Hospital has been sentenced to three years of probation. According to U.S. Attorney Jesse Laslovich, Caitlin Ashley Evans, 37, pleaded guilty in November 2022 to obtaining controlled substances by fraud, deception and subterfuge. The government alleged in court documents that [...]
A registered nurse is facing theft charges after allegedly being found with prescription drugs meant for the Washington County Detention Center. A release from the Washington County Sheriff’s Office (WCSO) states that M. Martinov, 60, of Bean Station, was seen in the jail parking lot “acting erratically” on Monday morning. An investigation reportedly found she [...]
Former nurse Alec Ramirez, 32, has been sentenced to 18 months in prison and had his license revoked after he was convicted of stealing controlled substances from Menorah Medical Center in Overland Park, Kan. In March 2021, Mr. Ramirez removed vials of fentanyl and hydromorphone from an automated dispensing cabinet at the hospital and replaced [...]