The case was investigated by the multi-agency Unified Drug Enforcement Strike Team. A former employee of an Ocala health care provider is suspected of using fake prescriptions to buy Percocet and oxycodone illegally. Elizabeth Gilley, 31, of Ocala, was arrested Tuesday on 12 counts of obtaining prescription drugs by fraud and 12 counts of [...]
A “hugely talented” junior doctor stole drugs from her own accident and emergency department in order to take her own life, a court has heard. A coroner said Doctor Rebecca Ovenden “was better at helping to treat others than she was helping to treat herself”. An inquest heard how Doctor Rebecca Ovenden stole drugs from [...]
GREENSBORO - A Burlington woman was dealt multiple charges after being found to have obtained more than 8,000 hydrocodone pills through forged prescriptions. Heather Smith Elliott pleaded guilty last week after obtaining 8,000 10-325 mg hydrocodone pills from CVS Pharmacy stores in Alamance and Guilford counties. Court documents show Elliott forged around 132 prescriptions for [...]
From single patches, to vials to entire cartons, fentanyl is going missing from hospitals across Canada, and nowhere is this happening more than in Ontario. As the Ontario government launches an “emergency taskforce” of front-line workers to advise on next steps in the fight against the province’s opioid overdose crisis, hospitals are losing the potent [...]
A Hillsborough County nurse is accused of using a dead person’s identity to get prescription drugs. C. Baker, 52, is accused of using obtaining a drug by fraud and fraudulent use of a deceased person’s information. Baker is a nurse at “Miracles In Motion,” an agency in Temple Terrace that works with people with intellectual [...]
MOSCOW — A man from Lackawanna County is under arrest for stealing prescription drugs while working as a physician assistant. Investigators with the attorney general’s office say Steven Kravitz, 44, of Moscow, was working for Horizon Medical Corporation. Kravitz allegedly wrote prescriptions using a doctor’s name for drugs for himself. Police said Kravitz would also [...]
One of 12 people indicted in a probe of a prescription drug ring allegedly run by health-care workers has pleaded guilty to prescription fraud. Kayla Tiara Caldwell, 26, accepted a plea agreement Friday, admitting she fraudulently obtained a prescription for oxycodone in Harrison County on Nov. 25, 2015. She and 11 others were arrested after [...]
Michelle Hibbard(Photo: Wayne County Sheriff) RICHMOND — The Indiana attorney general's office is seeking disciplinary action against the license of a nurse who admitted diverting $72,000 worth of opioids from Reid Health hospital. The registered nurse, Michelle Hibbard, 43, allegedly was caught with nine vials of opioid pain medication while on duty at the hospital, which [...]
COLUMBUS, Ga. — The Muscogee County Sheriff’s Office announces Friday a corporal faces charges after she was allegedly caught stealing from the drug take-back program. Sheriff Donna Tompkins says during a news conference Corporal Bridget Goolsby is charged with violation of oath, fraudulently obtaining a controlled substance, and two counts of violating the Georgia Controlled [...]
By Dominic Garcia DENVER (CBS4)– A former nurse at the Denver VA has been charged with stealing fentanyl. Investigators say it happened in 2016 and on several occasions, Lisa Marie Jones removed fentanyl from a vial and replaced it with another substance. The VA released a statement reading, “We can confirm the individual had been [...]