Two Town of Tonawanda paramedics were suspended pending termination proceedings Monday by the Tonawanda Town Board after they were accused of allegedly taking discarded prescription drugs from a drug deposit container in the town's police headquarters. A news release from Tonawanda Police Lt. Thomas Haynes identified them as J. Cinelli, 52, and J. Pecoraro, 40. [...]
The state health department last week suspended the license of a Pierce County-based certified nursing assistant who allegedly stole narcotic medications from the residents of a Puyallup assisted living facility and falsified inventory records. C. Homeyer, 28, of Puyallup, was arraigned Nov. 16, 2018, in Pierce County Superior Court on criminal charges of forgery and [...]
A northern Michigan nurse charged with forging prescriptions has taken a plea deal. On Monday, Kellie Herringa pleaded guilty to one count of drugs/obtain by fraud. According to investigators, Herringa forged a doctor's signature on three prescriptions she filled at Oleson's Pharmacy. The investigation started after a pharmacist noticed the handwriting on the third prescription [...]
A paramedic is charged with stealing several different drugs from a South Dakota Indian reservation ambulance service. Kelo Land reported that D. Arredondo, an EMT for the Oglala Sioux Tribe Ambulance Service on the Pine Ridge Reservation, was charged with stealing several drugs, including fentanyl, Ketamine and Midazolam. Police were alerted to the crime when [...]
Federal investigators claim his Norwalk health clinic was a pill mill and his Medicaid billing a $5 million fraud. On March 18, both claims landed Dr. Ramil Mansourov, 49, of Tokeneke Road, Darien, seven years and three months in federal prison followed by three years of supervised release. Senior U.S. District Judge Janet Bond Arterton [...]
A woman has lost her nursing license after she used a pre-signed prescription pad to write herself and others illegal prescriptions for Xanax, Percocet, and other drugs including amphetamines, according to the Tennessee Board of Nursing. While working at the Memphis Cardiovascular Center, Roxanna Earnest used a prescription pad with pre-signed signatures to write herself [...]
The Ohio Board of Nursing sent notices on Thursday telling 25 Mount Carmel Health System nurses that they could lose their licenses for their roles in the care of critically ill patients who died after receiving inappropriate doses of pain medications. Also Thursday, a 25th wrongful-death lawsuit naming Mount Carmel and Dr. William Husel was [...]
A former Jackson County emergency medical technician was sentenced Tuesday to five years of federal probation for stealing morphine. Colby W. VanWagoner, 33, of Mayetta, had pleaded guilty to one count each of obtaining a controlled substance by deception and making a false statement during an investigation, said U.S. Attorney for Kansas Stephen McAllister. Conditions [...]
A nurse in Madison County is facing multiple charges for allegedly stealing pain medicine from her patients. According to our partners at The Herald Bulletin, J. Lewellyn was working at a nursing home in Anderson when patients started complaining they weren't getting their pills from her. That's when the staff noticed several oxycodone pills were [...]
A staff member who allegedly stole drugs from eight clients at the Benedictine Living Community of Duluth told an investigator it was easy to do so because "storage and management of medications was poor." The Minnesota Department of Health's Office of Health Facility Complaints on Tuesday reported a substantiated finding of maltreatment at the complex's [...]