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. [...]
A Long Island nurse pleaded guilty Friday to stealing fentanyl from the hospital where she worked, the Daily News has learned. Olivia Daniti, 31, admitted to swiping the highly addictive opioid from Montefiore Medical Center in the Bronx between Oct. 27 and Oct. 29. The hospital fired her three days later. Daniti, who has been [...]
A local nurse accused of diluting a dying, elderly patient's morphine now wants to plead guilty in her ongoing federal case, according to court records. The defense attorney for L. Perrin, 47, of Haverhill, has requested a hearing in federal court in Boston for Perrin "to change her plea," according to court records. Perrin previously [...]
She was supposed to be monitoring staffing levels, not filling Oxycodone prescriptions for patients and then using them for her own pain. Nassau County Sheriff’s Office arrested 61-year-old K. Kirby Wednesday for obtaining a controlled substance by fraud. “Several times she went to the pharmacy to check out pills," Bill Leeper, Nassau County Sheriff, said. [...]
A former Nebraska State Patrol investigator has gotten two years of probation for possessing 1,800 prescription pills that had been turned in to law enforcement to be disposed. As part of the plea agreement, Christopher Kober, 46, agreed to surrender his law enforcement certification and not seek a job in law enforcement in the future, [...]
A 50-year-old woman was arrested Tuesday after she reportedly posed as a healthcare employee to steal medication prescriptions and took pillows from a senior living center. B. I. Zavala was charged with 10 counts of a burglary of habitation, a second-degree felony. Nine of 10 burglary charges happened Nov. 13, 2017, at Manor Crest Apartments, [...]
A pharmacist and a drugstore technician were arrested Tuesday and charged with using fake prescriptions to divert millions of dollars in oxycodone pills from a Queens pharmacy, officials said. Special Narcotics Prosecutor Bridget Brennan said pharmacist V. LaPerla and technician B. Martinez conspired to fill hundreds of illegitimate prescriptions for 30-milligram oxycodone pills at the [...]
A Dallas doctor who oversaw the illegal prescription of nearly one million units of narcotics with no legitimate medical purpose was sentenced to 13 years in federal prison Monday. Carlos Luis Venegas, 62, was convicted of conspiracy to distribute a controlled substance following a five-day trial in early February. According to evidence presented at trial, [...]
A Billings nurse has been indicted on federal charges accusing her of replacing hydrocodone with a common pain reliever and giving the less potent drug to a patient. S. M. White removed an unstated number of hydrocodone pills from their packaging and replaced them with generic acetaminophen, which was given to a patient, according to [...]
It was an inside job. A former medical assistant in Hastings, Michigan has accepted a plea deal with the U.S. Attorney’s office, admitting she stole a doctor’s prescription pad and conspired with two others to forge prescriptions and obtain over 4,000 pills. They purchased opioid painkillers, Adderall and other narcotics that could be sold on [...]