A former home health nurse in charged with stealing medications from her patients in Wise County, Virginia, according to police. (MGN graphic) A former home health nurse will appear in Wise County court next month after she was charged with stealing a patient's medication from their home. Susan Rae Wagner, 31, of Clintwood is charged [...]
A Buncombe County nurse is charged with taking the painkiller, fentanyl, with the intent to defraud her employer. Warrants say Eisenhower took the drugs from April through June of 2017 while working as an registered nurse at Mission Hospital. The warrants don't state how much fentanyl was taken. The State Bureau of Investigation investigated the [...]
The Montana Board of Nursing has suspended the license of a nurse practitioner after he acknowledged prescribing large amounts of oxycodone to a patient which the two then shared. Police say a 38-year-old man has admitted to stealing opioids and anti-anxiety medications from the Albertsons on 10th Avenue South where he worked as the pharmacy manager. [...]
A federal judge had strong words Thursday for two former employees of the John L. McClellan Memorial Veterans Hospital in Little Rock who used their positions to obtain opioids and other drugs at the hospital's expense for sale on the streets. But after lecturing the former pharmacy technicians about using their titles to keep them [...]
PINELLAS COUNTY, Fla. (WFLA) -A nurse is accused of stealing pain pills from patients at least two assisted living facilities in Pinellas County. According to an affidavit, Franshemeka Wheeler, a former nurse at Jacaranda Manor Assisted Living Facility in Kenneth City was responsible for a medicine cart that contained narcotics and other medication. Wheeler had [...]
Marc Kovac The Columbus Dispatch @ohiocapitalblog Sentencing of a former pharmacist accused of stealing more than $1 million worth of prescription drugs and reselling them was again postponed, this time to give the accused time to recover from a planned surgery. U.S. District Judge Michael H. Watson concluded a hearing in Columbus Thursday by telling [...]
A pharmacist has pleaded guilty in New Hampshire to tampering with customers’ pain medications, using syringes to withdraw the drugs and replacing them with saline. The US Attorney’s office in New Hampshire says 65-year-old Thomas Kellermann, of Bedford, pleaded guilty Wednesday to tampering with a consumer product and obtaining a controlled substance by fraud. He’s [...]
A House bill filed last week would increase the penalties for a caregiver who is convicted of stealing pills from a patient. State Rep. Jim DuPlessis, R-Elizabethtown, is sponsoring the legislation and said a local family brought the issue to his attention. A caregiver was arrested in March 2017 for taking an elderly patient’s pain [...]
A nurse was arrested after she allegedly stole pain medication intended for residents at Buffalo Crossing Assisted Living Facility in The Villages. Lisa Ann Lopez, 38, of Ocala, is facing a felony charge of theft following her arrest last week by Sumter County sheriff’s deputies. Buffalo Crossings Assisted Living in The Villages. Lisa Ann [...]
Joe's Discount Pharmacy in Detroit has had its controlled substance license suspended after Michigan's Department of Licensing and Regulatory Affairs (LARA) found the company has allegedly been over-dispensing controlled substances. According to a press release sent out by the department, the pharmacy "frequently dispensed commonly abused and diverted medications to patients, often in dangerous combinations." [...]