Image: Jukka-Pekka Tyhtilä / Yle A Kokkola nurse has been charged with stealing pain medication from young child in palliative care two years ago. At the time of the alleged crime, the nurse had been working in the three-year-old child’s home providing care. The nurse is believed to have swapped morphine prescribed as pain relief [...]
Updated: Nov 9, 2017 - 6:14 PM A pharmacy technician at UPMC Presbyterian is accused of stealing thousands of dollars of powerful painkillers. According to UPMC police headquarters, the tech’s fingerprints are what got her caught. Nicole Liggett is charged with stealing tens of thousands of dollars of prescription drugs from several pharmacies within the [...]
November 09, 2017 04:26 PM A registered nurse who was employed at Abbott Northwestern Hospital is charged with fraudulently obtaining opioid pain medication. According to the U.S. Attorney's Office, 30-year-old Matthew Allen Amundson of Northfield would steal primarily hydromorphone. Between January through April 2015, Amundson used the hospital's medication dispensing system and used syringes to take the opioid from vials [...]
SAGINAW, MI -- A Saginaw-area pharmacist has been suspended on accusations he over-dispensed controlled substances, including codeine/promethazine syrup, which is frequently abused and known by the street names of "sizzurp," "purple drank" and "lean." The Department of Licensing and Regulatory Affairs served an administrative complaint and order summarily suspending pharmacist Sureshkumar Dakshinamoorthy's license to dispense [...]
Copyright 2017 Nexstar Broadcasting, Inc. All rights reserved. This material may not be published, broadcast, rewritten, or redistributed. BAKERSFIELD, Calif. - A Bakersfield nurse accused of writing her own prescriptions pleaded not guilty Wednesday to nine felony counts and one misdemeanor. Jasmine Hill was arrested Oct. 6. An investigation by the Department of Consumer Affairs [...]
State police: Officer stole painkillers from evidence room ABERDEEN, Md. (AP) -- Investigators say a longtime Maryland police officer repeatedly stole painkillers from a police evidence room and a police-maintained prescription drop box. State Prosecutor Emmet C. Davitt said in a news release Wednesday that 38-year-old Aberdeen police Lt. Daniel E. Gosnell has been charged [...]
November 8, 2017 MILAN, Tenn. — A former nursing home director from Milan has been indicted by a Gibson County grand jury on more than a dozen counts of drug fraud. Laura Barnes, 42, was indicted this week on 19 counts of obtaining drugs by fraud, according to a news release from the 28th Judicial [...]
A man who stole a plethora of drugs from a crash cart at the Brandon Regional Health Centre was sentenced to more than two months of house arrest this week. Donnelly Bell pleaded guilty to two counts of theft under $5,000 in Brandon provincial court. "The crash cart is prepared to make sure that it’s [...]
A former nursing home nurse has been given a Crawford County jail sentence and probation for stealing hundreds of prescription pain medication pills from the home's residents last year. Jennifer L. Sutliff, 36, of 17778 Bertschy Road, was sentenced last week by President Judge Anthony Vardaro of Crawford County Court of Common Pleas to a [...]
A Queensland pharmacist has avoided jailtime after stealing thousands of controlled drugs while on the job Jason David Meiers, 44, recently fronted Hervey Bay Magistrates Court where it was revealed he stole controlled drugs while working as a pharmacist in Maryborough, reports the Fraser Coast Chronicle. In May this year, pharmacy staff had begun to [...]