A southeast Missouri doctor has been sentenced to five years of probation for unlawfully prescribing pain pills. Dr. Michael Jessup was sentenced Tuesday in federal court. He also must pay a $50,000 fine. He was indicted in August for dispensing hydrocodone and alprazolam for no legitimate medical reason between August 2016 and February 2017. The [...]
An Iowa nurse has been sentenced to three years in prison for stealing pain pills from his patients. Fifty-eight-year-old James Allen Moorehead of Mason City admits that in 2016 and 2017 — while he worked at Franklin General Hospital in Hampton — he stole prescription pain meds from his patients and faked entries on patient [...]
Two Virginia Beach dentists had their licenses suspended by the Virginia Board of Dentistry for writing excessive and unnecessary prescriptions, and trading dental work for help with drug activity. No dental insurance? No problem for an individual referred to only as “Patient A” in the suspension summary for Dr. Gary Hartman. After an investigation by [...]
A former nurse at Southeastern Ohio Regional Jail pleaded innocent last week to five felony counts of theft of drugs. The trial for Megan Snyder, 32, of Nelsonville, is scheduled for April 18. She is not being held on bond. Warden Joshua VanBibber has previously said that Snyder’s employment at the jail was terminated in [...]
Several pharmacy technicians in Memphis faced disciplinary actions in January for violating Tennessee Department of Health rules. Two techs, Danyelle Luster and Vanessa Thigpen, had their licenses revoked for diverting tablets. Thigpen diverted approximately 360 tablets of oxycodone in March 2017 while working at the Enclara pharmacy, according to documents from the Tennessee Department of Health. According to the documents, [...]
A Fort Smith-area doctor involved in a Drug Enforcement Administration investigation into local opioid overprescribing had his license suspended Monday. Members of the Arkansas Medical Board on Monday evening served Dr. Donald Eugene Hinderliter of Hinderliter Pain Clinic in Barling with an emergency order of suspension of his license. Hinderliter and Dr. Cecil Walter Gaby, [...]
A pharmacy employee was arrested Friday on accusations that she stole 71 oxycodone pills over a period of several months from the East Street store where she worked, police said. Kristen Freethy, 34, of Tolland was charged with sixth-degree larceny and possession of a controlled substance near a school. Freethy was working as a pharmacy [...]
Federal prosecutors are asking for no bail for a Big Island pain doctor accused of dealing opioids with his sister, a key figure in a growing public corruption scandal. Dr. Rudolph Puana and his sister, former Honolulu deputy prosecutor Katherine Kealoha, are scheduled to be arraigned Wednesday in federal court. A 54-count indictment alleges Kealoha [...]
A Grand Rapids doctor is facing charges after allegedly writing illegitimate prescriptions in exchange for cash and drugs. Dr. Richard Piazza is accused of writing false prescriptions for opioids to patients he never met. A pharmacist noticed he was filling a lot of prescriptions Piazza had been writing for opioids and thought it was strange, [...]
The Mississippi Bureau of Narcotics has arrested a pharmacy technician in Southaven who’s accused of stealing 1,000 dosage units of hydrocodone. V. Freeman, 23, is accused of embezzling the opiate, which is used to treat severe, long-term pain, from the pharmacy where she worked. Freeman’s arrest stemmed from a two-day investigation by MBN, the U.S. [...]