HelioMetrics Comment: While this article isn't directly related to drug diversion, we have been seeing many articles over the past few months of judges giving healthcare drug diverters little or no jail time... Then we see this article... Where a person was put in jail in Sweden for having fake nurse documents... but as the [...]
MADISON, Ind. (AP) -- A southern Indiana hospital's former emergency room director is accused of stealing hundreds of vials of opioids from the hospital. A judge entered a not guilty plea Friday for 42-year-old Kelly Hill. The Madison woman faces felony counts of theft, unlawful dispensation of a controlled substance, failure to make, keep or [...]
An in-home care provider was arrested on suspicion of elder abuse and burglary after allegedly stealing prescription pain medication from a 79-year-old patient and replacing it with aspirin, according the Napa Special Investigations Bureau. Police were notified of the suspected crime after the elderly man was determined to be suffering from withdrawal symptoms. The reporting [...]
April Beckler, 39, has been held in the Ward County Jail for months. Her bond had been lowered in November to a percentage bond requiring her to post $250, or 10 percent of $2,500, but she hasn't been able to pay that bond. Beckler told Judge Todd Cresap on Thursday that her parents have been [...]
A 50-year-old Wall Lake woman stole hundreds of pain pills from residents of a nursing home over the course of about four months this year. Michelle Denise Green faces seven criminal charges for fraud, tampering with records, dependent adult abuse and drug offenses, court records show. The most serious charges are felonies punishable by up [...]
A Cape York nurse has been charged with fraud after allegedly stealing morphine from her workplace. Police will allege the 41-year-old woman entered false information into a drug register to steal the drugs at a Weipa medical facility. She will appear in Cairns Magistrates Court on January 29 charged with two counts of fraud.
Buy Photo ZANESVILLE - If Matthew Chrisman could go back and change his actions the night he stole fentanyl from a Genesis Hospital patient's room, he would. Chrisman, a former nurse, told Muskingum County Common Pleas Court on Monday that he became dependent on opiates after he was prescribed some for health issues. He was a [...]
NORTH ENID, Okla. — A former North Enid Police Department officer was charged this week with abuse by caretaker and larceny of controlled dangerous substance for allegedly taking pain patches off of nursing home residents last year. Edward Lynn Dominic, 26, was charged Thursday with three felony crimes and a misdemeanor following an investigation by [...]
MANISTIQUE — A pharmacist from Manistique who stole narcotics for his own drug addiction while working at Schoolcraft Memorial Hospital was ordered to pay $946 in fines and costs during his sentencing in Schoolcraft County Circuit Court on Thursday. Daniel Joel Michalik, 48, was also placed on probation for 12 months, during which time his [...]
Harold Roque, 51, was charged with the theft of clonazepam, diazepam, clobazam and temazepam from the Waikato Hospital supply. A nurse at Waikato Hospital who was working night shifts helped himself to drugs from the hospital's supply in a bid to get some sleep. Harold Roque, 51, appeared in the Hamilton District Court on Thursday for [...]