Jaynes LINCOLNTON, NC (WBTV) - A nurse who worked at a Lincolnton care center is accused of stealing prescription drugs from her work place with the intent to sell them. According to warrants, 37-year-old Wendy Faye Jaynes worked at the Cardinal Healthcare and Rehabilitation Center on North Aspen Street in Lincolnton as a nurse. The warrants stated [...]
HelioMetrics Comment: This story about this former Director came out one day after another story about this same director made headlines. Here is a link to the other story on our site for her theft at a more recent facility she worked at. What is disturbing about this story is that "her employer mutually agreed [...]
POLK COUNTY, Iowa — Prosecutors in both Polk and Grundy counties charged the former director of nursing at a Polk City facility with stealing opioid pain killers from patients. Laura Townsend-Edler, 51, of Gladbrook, was arrested July 24 and faces a long list of charges. In Polk County, prosecutors charged Townsend-Edler with using her position [...]
A NURSE injected herself with drugs stolen from a hospital, used forged hospital prescriptions to get other drugs and hid a patient's tablet, until she was caught out by another nurse. Simone Margaret Morey, who was registered until July, 2014, has been reprimanded for professional misconduct and disqualified from applying for registration for six months. [...]
INDIANAPOLIS (WISH) — Indiana nurses accused of abusing or stealing drugs face inconsistent punishments from the state board that governs them, a year-long I-Team 8 investigation has uncovered. The I-Team 8 investigation found nurses accused of stealing prescription pain pills were more often granted probation on their license and allowed to return to work – [...]
Federal prosecutors say a former nurse who took morphine intended for patients at a Virginia nursing home and used it herself has been sentenced to four years in prison. Authorities say 40-year-old Christina Lovern Calloway of Radford was sentenced Tuesday after pleading guilty to tampering with a consumer product. Prosecutors say Calloway, while working at [...]
NAMPA — A Karcher Estates nurse is due in court Wednesday on suspicion of possessing drugs that were stolen from the retirement and assisted living home in Nampa, according to a police report. Jennifer Talich, 32, was arrested July 18 after an investigation that started as a report of missing hydrocodone pills from a resident’s [...]
DAYTONA BEACH, Fla. - A pharmacist is accused of stealing $6,395 worth of painkillers from a Volusia County cancer treatment center, according to the Daytona Beach Police Department. A nurse at the Radiology Oncology Center at Halifax Hospital in Daytona Beach found a vial of hydromorphone floating in an employee restroom toilet on June 28 and [...]
Tony Holt @tholt74 DAYTONA BEACH — A local pharmacist was arrested on allegations he stole $6,350 worth of controlled substances from a radiology center at Halifax Health Medical Center. Matthew Kaye, 44, of Port Orange, was employed at the Radiology Oncology Center at Halifax Health Medical Center, 303 N. Clyde Morris Blvd., when he committed the [...]
A nurse from Cheshunt has been convicted for stealing from the NHS while she worked at a critical care unit at a London hospital. Sarah Helen Day, 31, of Cheshunt, admitted in interview that she had stolen items from the NHS for a period of ten years. When police searched her home they recovered medication [...]