Elizabeth Cruz, a former Chicago pharmacy technician, has been sentenced to five years in prison for stealing hundreds of pills of hydrocodone, opioids, and selling them for profit. Cruz was a technician at Allcare Discount Pharmacy, Chicago. Cruz and Jacqueline Green were charged with stealing 56108 pills of hydrocodone from the pharmacy from October 2015 [...]
A 49-year-old doctor with a practice here has been charged with stealing prescription papers from another doctor and forging that doctor's signature to illegally obtain prescription drugs. Dr. R. Hutchinson of Springfield surrendered to detectives on Nov. 18 at Union Township Police Headquarters where he was charged with obtaining by fraud, uttering a forged document [...]
The Oregon Veterinary Medical Examining Board hasn’t properly inspected facilities across the state for compliance with Drug Enforcement Agency regulation and or done required background checks on licensees, a state audit found. Those lapses increased the risk that prescription drugs meant for animals have been illegally diverted to human use, contributing to the opioid crisis, [...]
Earlier this week, the Department of Justice announced the sentencing for a Denver-area nurse convicted to stealing drugs meant for Intensive Care Unit patients. According to the DOJ, 36-year-old nurse, Jessica Sharman was sentenced to 44 months for stealing fentanyl meant for ICU patients at Parker Adventist Hospital. In a release, the DOJ said Sharman [...]
A registered nurse is accused of stealing narcotics from Greenville Memorial Hospital for personal use over the course of a month, according to arrest warrants. On Thursday, agents with the state Department of Health and Environmental Control arrested 32-year-old E. Loeb, of Greenville, and charged her with two counts of theft of a controlled substance, [...]
Leaders at the management company of Emerald Shores Assisted Living said they are stunned after law enforcement said they found prescription drugs on the street that came from Emerald Shores. It led to the arrests of L. Miller, the now-former administrator at Emerald Shores, and M. McCraken, who passed out medication there. "To be selling [...]
A Mineola man accused of stealing medication from the hospital with which he was employed has pleaded guilty to the crime. Court records show Nathan Miller, 34, pleaded guity to state-jail felony diversion of a controlled substance in Judge Jack Skeen’s courtroom. He accepted a three-year deferred adjudication sentence. Miller was employed as a registered [...]
A Registered Nurse is accused of stealing drugs from Miami Valley Hospital. J. Lyle, 44, was indicted Thursday on 16 drug-related charges, including 10 counts of theft of drugs; three counts of illegal processing of drug documents; two counts of possession of dangerous drugs; and one count of tampering with drugs. The incidents happened between [...]
A former pharmacy technician at Beverly Hospital pleaded guilty Wednesday to what is believed to be the largest theft of prescription drugs in Massachusetts in at least a decade. But Lisa Tillman, of Salem, was spared from serving jail time. Salem District Court Judge Robert Brennan told Tillman, 51, that "you don't benefit and society doesn't [...]
A former Meijer employee pleaded guilty to a drug-possession charge in connection with stealing more than 2,000 prescription pills from the Warren’s store’s pharmacy. Brahndi Miller, 26, of Detroit, entered the plea to a charge of possession of analogues Oct. 28 in front of Judge Diane Druzinski in Macomb County Circuit Court and is scheduled [...]