A former registered nurse pleaded guilty Tuesday in federal court to stealing opioids from a hospital and using the drugs herself. Sarah Jean Moses, also known as Sarah Nalvanko, 42, of Cedar Rapids, pleaded to two charges of a 13-count superseding indictment. She was convicted of tampering and attempting to tamper with hydromorphone, an opioid [...]
Jerome Clampitt II, a 42-year-old former registered nurse from St. Johns, Florida, faces up to 10 years in federal prison after pleading guilty to tampering with injectable fentanyl, according to the US Attorney's Office. The charges are tied to complaints last year against Clampitt reported at Baptist Medical Center South in Jacksonville, Florida, that also [...]
A licensed practical nurse is accused of stealing prescription drugs from a hospice patient and using it herself. D. Aldinger, 55, of York, is facing a federal theft charge by criminal information, according to the U.S. Attorney’s Office for the Middle District of Pennsylvania. Aldinger in August 2019 allegedly stole Oxycodone pills at a care home where she [...]
A Middletown woman who was a nurse at a senior care facility is facing a felony for allegedly stealing drugs. J. L. Combs, 32, of Fiesta Way, was indicted Monday by a Warren County grand jury for theft of drugs, a fourth-degree felony. Combs, a registered nurse at Otterbein Middletown on Atrium Drive, is accused [...]
A nonprofit healthcare system that owns and operates a network of healthcare entities has agreed to pay $150,000 to resolve allegations that it violated the Controlled Substances Act, Acting U.S. Attorney Rachael A. Honig announced today. According to documents filed in this case and the contentions of the United States contained in the settlement agreement: [...]
A 44-year-old Colorado woman was sentenced to a year in federal prison for stealing pain medication from patients while working as a registered nurse, according to the U.S. Attorney's Office. Alicia Nickel-Tangeman was sentenced for obtaining controlled substances using fraud and deception after telling patients she was conducting a "study" on the effectiveness of patient [...]
The University of Texas Southwestern Medical Center will pay $4.5 million to resolve allegations that it failed to properly monitor controlled substances, including fentanyl, resulting in the fatal overdoses of two of its nurses in 2016 and 2018, the Department of Justice announced in a news release Tuesday. This civil settlement for drug diversion is [...]
A Clive pharmacist has agreed to relinquish ownership of his pharmacy as part of a settlement agreement with state regulators. Pharmacist Rick Pauley entered into a settlement agreement with the Iowa Board of Pharmacy after being charged with failing to submit timely and accurate prescriptions to the prescription monitoring program, and for dispensing an incorrect [...]
According to authorities, a UPS employee in San Antonio was arrested after being involved in the theft of a camera opening package and prescription drugs. C. R. Casillas, 24, was charged with diversion of controlled substances by registrants, dispensers and other specific individuals. This is a record of the Bexar County Prison show. The arrest [...]
A former Certified Registered Nurse Anesthetist at the Ann Arbor VA Medical Center was sentenced Nov. 9 to three years of probation for stealing controlled substances, including several types of opioids, from hospital dispensing machines, Acting United States Attorney Saima S. Mohsin said in a press release. While Elizabeth Prophitt, age 39, of Saline, Michigan, [...]