GOODYEAR, AZ - A Goodyear CVS employee is accused of stealing diabetic test strips for the past seven months, costing the company more than $100,000. Goodyear police report that on Tuesday they arrested 29-year-old Robert Brian Kemple for theft, fraudulent schemes, and trafficking in stolen property. Police say loss prevention at CVS Pharmacy conducted an investigation [...]
A former Des Moines hospital worker who admitted stealing painkillers from hundreds of patients was arraigned on federal charges Wednesday. Victor Van Cleave appeared in court to face two criminal counts, the U.S. attorney’s office in Des Moines announced. One count charges Van Cleave with tampering with consumer products. The other count charges him with [...]
BOONE COUNTY, Ind. (WISH) — A medical contractor was placed under arrest in Boone County after officials said she trafficked narcotics at the Boone County Sheriff’s Office. It happened when a sheriff noticed differences in the daily routines of inmates on Monday, launching an investigation into their abnormal behavior. The investigation concluded after it was [...]
KNOXVILLE, Tenn. (WVLT) At Renaissance Terrace assisted living, crime was never an issue, according to CEO Tim Howell, but a recent inventory check and a look on the facility's security cameras placed an unlikely suspect into an active investigation. According to a recent police report, a security guard was accused of using a nurse's key [...]
MINOT, N.D. – A former Minot nurse facing charges in a federal drug diversion investigation made her initial appearance in district court Monday. Thirty-nine-year-old April Beckler faces felony charges of endangering a vulnerable adult, criminal conspiracy, and theft of property. Investigators say the diversion occurred between December of 2012 and September of 2014 and involved [...]
A former Morristown-Hamblen Healthcare Systems emergency room doctor indicted for illegally obtaining hydrocodone and oxycodone will escape jail time if he remains offense-free for two years, according to court documents. Alfred Vaughn Jackson, 40, was granted a judicial diversion in Hamblen County Criminal Court on Thursday. Jackson, who lives in Knoxville, conceded he committed 10 [...]
Jacqueline Lusk(Photo: OCC) A Monroe woman is facing 24 counts of obtaining a controlled dangerous substance by fraud. According to an arrest report, agents with the Metro Narcotics Unit were dispatched to the Walgreens on Cypress Street to investigate Jacqueline Lusk, 43, Rimes Circle on the charges. A warrant states that an agent visited the [...]
JUPITER A 58-year-old Boynton Beach woman pretended to be a nurse while stealing medication from a Jupiter doctor’s office, town police allege. Police arrested Donna M. King on Wednesday on charges of theft, practicing nursing without a license and fraudulent use of a nursing license. She was released the same day after posting a $6,000 [...]
One of three employees indicted in February on charges of conspiring to steal and distribute prescription medication, including opioids, at the John L. McClellan Memorial Veterans Hospital in Little Rock pleaded guilty Thursday in federal court. Satishkumar "Steve" Patel, 44, of North Little Rock, a former pharmacy technician at the hospital, pleaded guilty to a [...]
A NURSE has been cautioned for stealing and taking drugs while on duty at Royal Bournemouth Hospital’s emergency department. Gabrielle Townsend admitted abusing her position as a nurse by stealing the painkiller dihydrocodeine from A&E over a period of six months between February 2016 and July 2016 at a Nursing and Midwifery Council (NMC) misconduct [...]