By Sam Lounsberry Reporter-Herald Staff Writer Windsor police arrested a 31-year-old Wellington woman Sunday on suspicion of stealing a patient's morphine pills while working as a nursing assistant for a man on hospice. Erinn Morgan Smith is facing two counts of felony drug possession, felony aggravated robbery of a controlled substance, felony theft against an [...]
LIBERTYVILLE, IL — An Advocate Condell Medical Center nurse is being accused of stealing about $500 worth of drugs from his place of work, according to a police report. Benjamin Sandholm, 33, of the 400 block of Larchmont Lane, Vernon Hills, was charged Dec. 11, the report said, with theft and unlawful acquisition of controlled [...]
MEMPHIS, Tenn. - A former pharmacy technician at Regional One was caught and arrested for illegally filling prescription drugs. It took over a year for her to get her pharmacy license revoked. FOX13 learned the initial offense happened in April of 2016. It led to an unknown number of opioids hitting the streets of Memphis, [...]
MEMPHIS, Tenn. - Several Memphis area nurses are in trouble for putting patient safety at risk. That’s according to the state board that oversees their licenses. FOX13 took a closer look at how you find out if the medical professional you use has been disciplined before. One nurse was disciplined for swallowing 11 Percocet’s while [...]
HelioMetrics Comment: While this article isn't directly related to drug diversion, we have been seeing many articles over the past few months of judges giving healthcare drug diverters little or no jail time... Then we see this article... Where a person was put in jail in Sweden for having fake nurse documents... but as the [...]
MADISON, Ind. (AP) -- A southern Indiana hospital's former emergency room director is accused of stealing hundreds of vials of opioids from the hospital. A judge entered a not guilty plea Friday for 42-year-old Kelly Hill. The Madison woman faces felony counts of theft, unlawful dispensation of a controlled substance, failure to make, keep or [...]
An in-home care provider was arrested on suspicion of elder abuse and burglary after allegedly stealing prescription pain medication from a 79-year-old patient and replacing it with aspirin, according the Napa Special Investigations Bureau. Police were notified of the suspected crime after the elderly man was determined to be suffering from withdrawal symptoms. The reporting [...]
April Beckler, 39, has been held in the Ward County Jail for months. Her bond had been lowered in November to a percentage bond requiring her to post $250, or 10 percent of $2,500, but she hasn't been able to pay that bond. Beckler told Judge Todd Cresap on Thursday that her parents have been [...]
A 50-year-old Wall Lake woman stole hundreds of pain pills from residents of a nursing home over the course of about four months this year. Michelle Denise Green faces seven criminal charges for fraud, tampering with records, dependent adult abuse and drug offenses, court records show. The most serious charges are felonies punishable by up [...]
A Cape York nurse has been charged with fraud after allegedly stealing morphine from her workplace. Police will allege the 41-year-old woman entered false information into a drug register to steal the drugs at a Weipa medical facility. She will appear in Cairns Magistrates Court on January 29 charged with two counts of fraud.