By Sari Horwitz, Scott Higham The Washington Post WASHINGTON - Attorney General Jeff Sessions said Tuesday that over the next 45 days, a "surge" of Drug Enforcement Administration agents and investigators will focus on pharmacies and prescribers who are dispensing unusual or disproportionate amounts of drugs. To intensify the fight against what is called "prescription [...]
An investigation by the Medicines and Healthcare Regulatory Agency (MHRA) has uncovered a criminal network involving “a small number” of registered pharmacies and wholesalers who have diverted prescription-only drugs on to the black market. More than 40 arrests have been made following extensive investigations which found that between £115 million and £200 million worth of [...]
BRADFORD – Police said a woman who was a passenger in a vehicle that was stopped for traveling at 90 mph was a nurse who had stolen narcotics from a Hartford, Connecticut, hospital. Amanda Claffey and Ryan Reed, both 27 and both from Newington, Connecticut, were cited to appear in Orange County criminal court on [...]
From Staff Reports CHARLESTON - A Boone County man pleaded guilty today to a federal drug charge, announced United States Attorney Mike Stuart. Roger Dane Adkins, 45, of Morrisvale entered his guilty plea to obtaining hydromorphone and fentanyl by subterfuge. U.S. Attorney Stuart commended the Drug Enforcement Administration's Tactical Diversion Squad and the Charleston Police [...]
(KANSAS CITY, Mo.) A former paramedic with two northwest Missouri ambulance districts was sentenced in federal court Friday for stealing pain-killing drugs and replacing the vials with water. Joseph Comstock, 31, of Bethany, Mo. was sentenced to two and a half years in federal prison. On Sept. 12, 2017, Comstock pleaded guilty to three counts [...]
A nurse is accused of stealing fentanyl, a powerful and potentially deadly painkiller, from the Fayetteville Ambulatory Surgery Center. Kari Chappell Barnette, 33, who lives in Downsville, Louisiana, was charged today with embezzlement, according to arrest warrants in the Cumberland County Magistrate's Office. The theft occurred Wednesday, warrants said. Fayetteville police filed the charges. Barnett [...]
A Guernsey nurse has been struck off after being caught watering down painkillers and administering the solution to elderly residents. Alison Le Huray was jailed for last three months last year after she admitted stealing the drug Oramorph, a morphine solution, from the Princess Elizabeth Hospital. Le Huray was caught on camera pouring the drug [...]
A licensed practical nurse at Edison Manor is facing charges for allegedly overdosing at the local nursing home where she was employed. New Castle police following a nine-month investigation allege in a criminal complaint filed Jan. 16 that Kathryn A. Jones, 52, of 715 Cunningham Ave., unlawfully and fraudulently obtained possession of multiple narcotics that had been prescribed [...]
By Adam Sennott Globe Correspondent January 21, 2018 A former worker at a long-term care facility for the elderly in Salem, N.H., was given a three-year suspended prison sentence and two years of probation for stealing prescription fentanyl from a resident, the New Hampshire attorney general’s office announced Friday. Stephanie McMahon of Derry, N.H., pleaded [...]
SALEM, N.H. — A former employee at an assisted living facility pleaded guilty in Rockingham Superior Court on Friday to a count of possession of a prescription drug, according to a statement from the office of New Hampshire Attorney General Gordon MacDonald. Court documents say that between March 13 and March 14, Stephanie McMahon, 39, [...]