A pharmacy technician in Florida was arrested for the second time in three weeks for allegedly stealing bottles of prescription pills after store surveillance video appeared to show her stuffing bottles down her shirt, police said. The Volusia County Sheriff's Office said Katie Jean Williams, 28, of Daytona Beach, had been working at the Pierson [...]
A local nurse who pleaded guilty to entering rooms of nursing home patients and stealing pain-killing opioid patches from their bodies has agreed to surrender his license to be a practical nurse. James Rellihan pleaded guilty Thursday to residential burglary. He worked at Bloomington Rehabilitation and Health Care Center on South Main Street, and went [...]
A Gilbert woman pleaded guilty in federal court on Wednesday in what officials said is the largest pharmacy theft in West Virginia history. Marcia Evans, 60, pleaded guilty to conspiracy to distribute a controlled substance, Suboxone, before U.S. District Court Judge David A. Faber. She faces up to 10 years in prison when she is [...]
A former Billings Clinic nurse has pleaded guilty to stealing powerful opioids intended for patients. The Billings Gazette reports that Donald Friedlich Mills entered his plea Tuesday in U.S. District Court. He pleaded guilty to counts of tampering with consumer products and illegally acquiring fentanyl. Mills was fired in 2017. He is accused of stealing [...]
A former Bedford pharmacist was sentenced to two years in prison for drug related offenses this week. According to a statement from United States Attorney Scott W. Murray, Thomas Kellermann, 65, of Bedford, began abusing narcotic pain relief drugs. According to court documents, Kellermann took medical leave from his position in March of 2012. While [...]
A woman suspected of stealing thousands of dollars' worth of prescription pills from the business where she worked has been arrested. The St. Mary Parish Sheriff's Office reported T. Thomas, 39, of Franklin, was taken into custody on April 30 in connection with an investigation that started on April 18. Deputies said Thomas is accused [...]
Two Colorado nurses who stole opioids from hospitals in Denver and Greeley were sentenced to prison in federal court. Judge R. Brooke Jackson of the U.S. District Court for the District of Colorado sentenced Lisa Marie Jones, 43, of Castle Rock, a former employee of Veterans Affairs Medical Center in Denver, to fourteen months imprisonment [...]
Authorities on Wednesday arrested a Hernando Walgreens employee for allegedly pocketing a dozen prescription pills during her latest shift — but over 130 pills are still unaccounted for. In a written statement to Citrus County sheriff’s investigators, 45-year-old Melissa Marie Ciafardo admitted to taking medication from the store’s pharmacy for the past two months, according [...]
The Canton-Potsdam Hospital cardiologist charged with stealing prescription medication from patients pleaded not guilty in Town Court today. Dr. Richard F. Wessel Jr., 59, pleaded not guilty to five counts of petit larceny and seventh-degree criminal possession of a controlled substance, all misdemeanors. According to the original arrest report by Potsdam Village Police, Dr. Wessel [...]
An Oneida County doctor whose license was suspended in 2007 for having sex with patients has been temporarily barred from practicing medicine again, this time for trying to sell prescription painkillers. The state Board for Professional Medical Conduct ordered Dr. Arthur M. Mercado, 60, of New Hartford to stop practicing while it investigates misconduct charges against him [...]