A former registered nurse at the Geisinger Medical Center near Danville has been placed on a year’s probation for diverting prescription opioids for her personal use over a five-month period. Akeya Lee Whitenight, 36, of Sunbury, was sentenced Friday after she pleaded guilty in Montour County Court to a charge of receiving stolen property. She [...]
During her first shift at a Westfield nursing home in 2018, Danielle Works skimmed morphine from a dying patient to feed her own drug habit. According to a federal prosecutor, Works was found slumped over in a chair, barely coherent, during the second leg of a double shift at the Governor’s Center long-term care facility [...]
A Virginia Beach man pleaded guilty today to acquiring over 50,000 dosage units of prescription medications through fraudulent means. “Pharmacy technicians are entrusted with safeguarding and maintaining prescription medications in a responsible manner,” said Raj Parekh, Acting U.S. Attorney for the Eastern District of Virginia. “This defendant did the opposite. He stole a large supply [...]
A former nurse has been placed on probation for multiple crimes, including stealing narcotics from a Barre nursing home. Sherise L. Simpson, 36, pleaded guilty Thursday in Washington County criminal court to a felony count of prescription fraud and misdemeanor counts of petty larceny, operating a vehicle without the owner’s consent and passing a bad [...]
A nurse working at a county nursing home has been accused of raiding the medicine cabinet. State police have filed 72 charges against K. L. Hemby, 46, of Ellwood City, who is accused of stealing prescription medications from her patients while working as a nurse for the Fair Winds Manor Nursing Home at 126 Iron [...]
A local woman who was employed as a licensed practice nurse at Christ the King Manor in DuBois has been charged by the state Attorney General Josh Shapiro’s office on drug-related charges. B. B. Carfley, 61, of Curwensville, was arraigned in front of District Judge James Hawkins at Magisterial Office 46-3-01 in DuBois on July [...]
A nurse at St Elizabeth Health Center was arrested and accused of stealing drugs Sunday after a supervisor told police she thought the woman was under the influence of drugs. Deanna Dumbrys, 43, of Lakewood, was arraigned Monday in municipal court on three counts of theft of dangerous drugs, a fourth degree felony. She was [...]
A nurse practitioner on the Mississippi Gulf Coast has been arrested as a result of an investigation into prescription drug fraud and theft earlier this month. Following a complaint, Agents with the Mississippi Bureau of Narcotics, with assistance from the Drug Enforcement Administration’s Gulfport Tactical Diversion Unit, began investigating Nurse Practitioner Leslie Wilbourne, 46. At the time of [...]
A former nurse in Massachusetts will serve one year and one day in jail for stealing opioid pain medication for his own benefit at his former workplace, after diverting narcotics intended for emergency department patients in 2016, a federal court in Boston bared on Tuesday. The offender, Mark Croft, 48, of West Boylston, was also sentenced by [...]
A registered nurse working at UPMC Altoona admitted to stealing narcotics from the hospital in November and replacing the pills with vitamins, court documents stated. D. Pacifico, 39, was arraigned Thursday by Magisterial District Judge Daniel DeAntonio on a drug-related felony and two misdemeanors, according to court documents. UPMC Altoona police were alerted to suspicious [...]