MINNEAPOLIS, MN — A nurse will make his first court appearance Friday afternoon for stealing allegedly drugs on 34 different days from the Veterans Affairs Medical Center, Hennepin County Attorney Mike Freeman announced. Matthew Leininger, 42, of Minneapolis was charged with five counts of theft by swindle for allegedly stealing the drugs between June 22 [...]
A Margate doctor pleaded guilty Friday morning to more than $24 million in health benefits fraud in connection with a large-scale prescription fraud federal investigation. John Gaffney, 55, of Linwood, pleaded guilty to conspiracy to commit health-benefits fraud before U.S. District Judge Robert B. Kugler. Gaffney admitted he wrote more than 200 fraudulent prescriptions for [...]
A Blair woman accused of stealing morphine from a Blair nursing home was arrested Sept. 15 on a warrant. Abby M. Arnold, 35, is charged with intentionally violating the narcotic drug law, a Class IV felony. A warrant was issued for Arnold's arrest Sept. 14. She is scheduled to be arraigned in Washington County Court [...]
A federal grand jury indicted a former registered nurse in Douglas on four counts related to stealing narcotics and diluting patients' narcotics, according to U.S. District Court records. Ryan Joseph Harris was placed on administrative leave from the Memorial Hospital of Converse County in June and had his license suspended by the Wyoming State Board [...]
Ector County Hospital District Police arrested a Medical Center Hospital pharmacy tech with some help from Odessa Police Department and the suspect’s ex-boyfriend, according to a probable cause affidavit. Brandon Scott King, 30, and his boyfriend were in the process of breaking up on Sept. 10. When King’s boyfriend was packing up his things and [...]
Kimberly Rowe(Photo: BCSO) A 39-year-old Gassville woman was arrested after she allegedly stole painkillers and money from the patients she cared for, according to a news release from Mountain Home Police Chief Carry Manuel. Kimberly Rowe faces three felony charges of controlled substances-fraudulent practices and two misdemeanor theft of property charges. She was released from [...]
By Adam Sennott Globe Correspondent September 20, 2017 A woman who worked at a long-term care facility for the elderly in Salem, N.H., was charged Tuesday with two counts of posession of fentanyl, the New Hampshire Attorney General’s office said. Stephanie McMahon, 39 of Salem, allegedly stole a total of three fentanyl patches on [...]
A disgraced local pharmacist who used the names of the dead and dying to fill bogus fentanyl prescriptions was sentenced Tuesday to 11 years behind bars. Yogesh Patel, a 47-year-old Kitchener resident who had no criminal record, had pleaded guilty to stealing opioid drugs -- including 3,000 fentanyl patches and 1,500 hydromorphone patches with a [...]
A Meadville-area woman faces up to 17 years in state prison after admitting to stealing patients' prescription pain medication while working as a nurse at a western Crawford County nursing home last year. Jennifer L. Sutliff, 36, of 17778 Bertschy Road, pleaded guilty Thursday in Crawford County Court of Common Pleas to obtaining a controlled [...]
CALDWELL, Idaho (AP) - An Idaho nurse accused of stealing pills from nursing home residents pleaded guilty to possession of a controlled substance. The Idaho Press-Tribune reports 32-year-old Jennifer Talich made the guilty plea for the felony charge on Tuesday as part of a deal that dropped all other charges against her. The dropped charges [...]