A former registered nurse at the Memorial Hospital of Converse County in Douglas was sentenced in federal court on Wednesday to eight months of imprisonment for stealing narcotics and diluting patients' narcotics. U.S. District Court Judge Alan Johnson handed down the sentence to Ryan Joseph Harris, who pleaded guilty in November to one count of [...]
BIRMINGHAM, Ala. (AP) — A one-time pharmacy worker who pleaded guilty to taking opioid painkillers that were meant for terminally ill patients is going to prison. U.S. District Judge R. David Proctor sentenced 30-year-old Johnathan William Click to five years in prison Wednesday. A statement from prosecutors says Click worked at ContinuumRx of Central Alabama, a [...]
Former Public Health Head Nurse charged with two counts regarding the dispensing of prescription drugs By Ted Pennekamp The November terminations of two Crawford County Public Health nurses has taken another twist. Former Head Nurse Gloria Wall, 69, was charged in Crawford County Circuit Court on Feb. 13, with one count of dispensing a prescription [...]
An Austin nurse accused of stealing medication from her hospice patient has entered a guilty plea in the case. Lyna Ann Tschann, 38, on Tuesday entered a guilty plea as part of a plea agreement to one count of fifth-degree drug possession, a gross misdemeanor, in Mower County District Court. Tschann was initially charged with [...]
DAVENPORT, Iowa (AP) -- An eastern Iowa nurse who'd been convicted in a 2015 morphine theft case has been given probation in a second case involving the theft of painkillers. The Des Moines Register reports that Cassandra Pierce, of Ottumwa, was granted a deferred judgment on Feb. 2 and sentenced to three years' probation. Under [...]
One worker peeled a pain patch from a patient's back At least 21,000 overdose deaths were attributed to opioids last year. An additional 30,000 overdose deaths are attributed to heroin and powerful synthetic opioids.(Photo: AP) An Iowa nurse with a history of theft has been convicted of stealing painkillers from three hospital patients. Cassandra Pierce, [...]
A paramedic in Indiana was recently arrested after admitting to stealing vials of fentanyl from ambulance supplies while treating victims at accident scenes. J. Joseph, a paramedic in Indianapolis, is accused of stealing the substance and tampering with the vials to hide her theft. Prosecutors in Marion County, Ind., filed charges against Joseph earlier this week [...]
A Walmart pharmacy technician from Cumming has been arrested after store video footage showed her allegedly stealing pills from the store’s supply area. According to an incident report from the Forsyth County Sheriff’s Office, Karen Jane Reynolds, a 39-year-old resident of Cumming, was arrested Friday for theft by taking when a pharmacist at the Walmart [...]
A former manager of the Anne Arundel police crime lab was sentenced to six months in prison Tuesday after she’d pleaded guilty to stealing prescription drugs from drop boxes at district stations for more than two years. Annette Alchin Box, 49, of Pasadena, sobbed throughout much of Tuesday’s sentencing hearing at Circuit Court, where prosecutors [...]
SALINE COUNTY, Ark -- A Saline County nurse is accused of putting her patients' lives in danger by mishandling their medicine. Hot Springs Village police arrested Melanie Burns, 45, last Friday, following a two month investigation at Good Samaritan Nursing Home. Investigators said the facility contacted them in December after Burns allegedly failed to give [...]