Osage Beach, Mo — A nurse from Osage Beach pleaded guilty in federal court on Monday to illegally obtaining fentanyl for personal use. Charles Welch Jr., 65, a certified registered nurse anesthetist at Lake Ozark Anesthesia, pleaded guilty before a U.S. District Judge to one count of obtaining a controlled substance through misrepresentation. According to [...]
Jacqueline Brewster, 54, of Belfry, Kentucky, pleaded guilty on Wednesday, December 11, 2024, to obtaining a controlled substance by fraud and wrongful disclosure of individually identifiable health information. According to court documents and statements made in court, Brewster admitted that she unlawfully accessed and used individually identifiable health information of patients at Raleigh General Hospital [...]
TEXARKANA, Texas – A nurse practitioner was sentenced to one year of probation for stealing prescription drugs from the pharmacy of the Federal Correctional Institution in Texarkana. During a hearing on Wednesday at Texarkana’s downtown federal building, Jeremy Dougan pleaded guilty to theft of government property. According to court records, from July 2023 to Jan. [...]
While nurses have access to plenty of drugs, not stealing them is pretty much part of the job description. U.S. Attorney Philip R. Sellinger made an announcement on November 20 about a traveling nurse from St. Petersburg, Florida, who was charged with stealing fentanyl from hospitals. Evidence shows that the nurse, 35-year-old David L. Shaeffer, [...]
The Iowa Board of Nursing has suspended the license of a Cedar Rapids nurse it had accused of using methamphetamine and stealing patient medications or supplies. State records indicate that in 2023, Trenton R. Buchanan was working in Iowa as a hospital nurse. On Oct. 28, 2023, he was arrested at an Altoona campground near [...]
RALEIGH, N.C. (WNCN) — A former WakeMed Hospital employee is charged with stealing fentanyl from the hospital. Kellianne Erin McGuire is charged with embezzling/diverting a controlled substance by registrant/employee and obtaining possession of a controlled substance by fraud/forgery. According to charging documents, McGuire was a registered nurse working at WakeMed Hospital in Raleigh at the time [...]
A former Cape Girardeau nurse was sentenced Tuesday, Aug. 1, for stealing leftover fentanyl from Saint Francis Medical Center in Cape Girardeau. Lindsey Francis, 35, was ordered by U.S. District Judge Stephen N. Limbaugh Jr. to serve three years of probation, provide 200 hours of public service work and to pay a $5,000 fine. She [...]
SPRINGFIELD, Ill. (WICS) — A central Illinois dentist pleaded guilty to two counts of drug diversion, two counts of acquiring a controlled substance by fraud, one count of tampering with consumer products resulting in serious bodily injury, and two counts of false statements relating to health care matters. Phillip M. Jensen, 63, of Rochester,admitted to [...]
A grand jury on Friday, Aug. 2 indicted a former chief flight nurse who worked aboard the county’s Trauma Star life-flight helicopter until her colleages reported missing narcotics and altered inventory logs. A subsequent audit revealed more than 600 missing vials of Fentanyl and other narcotics. Lynda J. Rusinowski, the former chief flight nurse for [...]
A former intensive care unit nurse has been arrested for allegedly swapping patients' pain medication with tap water, police in Medford, Oregon, announced Thursday. D. M. Schofield faces 44 counts of assault in the second degree, charges that "reflect the total amount of patients that this investigation revealed to have been affected by Schofield’s criminal [...]