February 01, 2018 Police in Oklahoma said they busted two nursing home employees for prescription drug theft after stopping one of them in connection with an undercover gun buy and finding pilfered pill bottles in the car he was driving. The man, Matthew Beason, 29, and his girlfriend, Torrie McCann, 22, both worked at the [...]
A manager at Walgreens, 9449 S. Howell Ave., called police Jan. 23 about an employee who had been stealing narcotics. The employee, a pharmacy technician at the store, admitted to police she had been stealing oxycodone pills from February 2017 to January 2018. She said she did not have an exact number of pills or [...]
By Sari Horwitz, Scott Higham The Washington Post WASHINGTON - Attorney General Jeff Sessions said Tuesday that over the next 45 days, a "surge" of Drug Enforcement Administration agents and investigators will focus on pharmacies and prescribers who are dispensing unusual or disproportionate amounts of drugs. To intensify the fight against what is called "prescription [...]
An investigation by the Medicines and Healthcare Regulatory Agency (MHRA) has uncovered a criminal network involving “a small number” of registered pharmacies and wholesalers who have diverted prescription-only drugs on to the black market. More than 40 arrests have been made following extensive investigations which found that between £115 million and £200 million worth of [...]
BRADFORD – Police said a woman who was a passenger in a vehicle that was stopped for traveling at 90 mph was a nurse who had stolen narcotics from a Hartford, Connecticut, hospital. Amanda Claffey and Ryan Reed, both 27 and both from Newington, Connecticut, were cited to appear in Orange County criminal court on [...]
From Staff Reports CHARLESTON - A Boone County man pleaded guilty today to a federal drug charge, announced United States Attorney Mike Stuart. Roger Dane Adkins, 45, of Morrisvale entered his guilty plea to obtaining hydromorphone and fentanyl by subterfuge. U.S. Attorney Stuart commended the Drug Enforcement Administration's Tactical Diversion Squad and the Charleston Police [...]
(KANSAS CITY, Mo.) A former paramedic with two northwest Missouri ambulance districts was sentenced in federal court Friday for stealing pain-killing drugs and replacing the vials with water. Joseph Comstock, 31, of Bethany, Mo. was sentenced to two and a half years in federal prison. On Sept. 12, 2017, Comstock pleaded guilty to three counts [...]
A nurse is accused of stealing fentanyl, a powerful and potentially deadly painkiller, from the Fayetteville Ambulatory Surgery Center. Kari Chappell Barnette, 33, who lives in Downsville, Louisiana, was charged today with embezzlement, according to arrest warrants in the Cumberland County Magistrate's Office. The theft occurred Wednesday, warrants said. Fayetteville police filed the charges. Barnett [...]
A Guernsey nurse has been struck off after being caught watering down painkillers and administering the solution to elderly residents. Alison Le Huray was jailed for last three months last year after she admitted stealing the drug Oramorph, a morphine solution, from the Princess Elizabeth Hospital. Le Huray was caught on camera pouring the drug [...]
A licensed practical nurse at Edison Manor is facing charges for allegedly overdosing at the local nursing home where she was employed. New Castle police following a nine-month investigation allege in a criminal complaint filed Jan. 16 that Kathryn A. Jones, 52, of 715 Cunningham Ave., unlawfully and fraudulently obtained possession of multiple narcotics that had been prescribed [...]