August 22—A former MedStar Ambulance paramedic has been sentenced to just over nine years in prison for stealing drugs from an ambulance. A jury in East St. Louis had previously convicted 44-year-old Jason Laut, of O’Fallon, on 38 counts of a federal indictment following a two-week trial, according to a news release from the United States [...]
Two pharmacy techs who worked in the Memphis area recently gave up their licenses in separate cases following accusations that they each stole painkiller tablets. One of the cases involves at least 1,200 missing pills, the other involves more than 10,000 pills. Records from the Tennessee Board of Pharmacy don't describe the motivation for the thefts. But [...]
A former nurse, who used patient identities to steal pain pills for himself while employed at Franklin General Hospital in Hampton, was convicted Monday in federal court. James A. Moorehead, 58, of Mason City, pleaded guilty Monday in U.S. District Court to one count of acquiring a controlled substance by misrepresentation, fraud, deception, or subterfuge; [...]
An Upstate nurse faces charges after investigators say she stole drugs from the Inman clinic where she worked and falsified medical records, according to arrest warrants. L. A. Wilkins was arrested Friday and charged with theft of a controlled substance, first offense, and a drug distribution violation. According to the warrants, between March 1 and [...]
An Edmonton woman has been charged with stealing more than 400,000 Percocet tablets from the pharmacy where she worked. The tablets have an estimated street value of $2 million, Edmonton police said Tuesday in a news release. Police said they will not release the woman's name to protect the identities of two children who were living in her [...]
A North Carolina nurse has admitted that she stole fentanyl from the hospital where she worked, first for her husband and later for personal use. Hayley Lammon Brown, 29, was working at Forsyth Medical Center in Winston-Salem, North Carolina when the theft occurred, according to The Winston-Salem Journal. This week, Brown entered a guilty plea [...]
A former nurse at Forsyth Medical Center pleaded guilty Tuesday stealing vials of the painkiller fentanyl from the hospital. Hayley Lammon Brown, 29, of Elkin, entered a guilty plea in Forsyth Superior Court to one count of embezzlement of a controlled substance by an employee. Judge Ed Wilson of Forsyth Superior Court gave her a [...]
A former WakeMed Hospital nurse is charged with embezzling oxycodone from the hospital from late January through the beginning of July. S. L. Dockus, 43, who lives in Holly Springs, turned herself in Monday at the Wake County Detention Center after hospital police swore out a warrant accusing her of embezzlement of a controlled substance [...]
A Canastota woman faces numerous charges after police said she stole drugs from the Kinney Drugs pharmacy in Cazenovia, where she was employed. S. J. Snyder, 32, of Canastota faces several counts of petit larceny and several counts of seventh-degree criminal possession of a controlled substance and a felony charge of first-degree falsifying business records [...]
A licensed pharmacy technician was arrested on the job Thursday afternoon in the metro Jackson area. According to the Mississippi Bureau of Narcotics, 30-year-old J. L. Meredith of Florence faces a charge of obtaining the controlled substance phentermine 37.5 mg by embezzlement. In conjunction with Meredith’s arrest, agents seized a handgun and a small quantity of [...]