In late May, a nurse anesthetist was sentenced to nearly three years in federal prison for tampering with opioid analgesics intended for patients. For nearly eight months, while working in a hospital surgery and birthing center, he tampered with fentanyl so that he could use the drugs himself instead of giving patients their full doses. [...]
A Lexington woman died Monday, after police arrested her nurse for stealing the woman’s drugs. According to court documents, 50-year-old C. Young was arrested Sunday night when the family of Doris Grant noticed the nurse take Grant’s pills into the bathroom. When police arrived and searched Young’s car, officers say they found 77 pills. According [...]
A federal jury found a West Virginia doctor guilty today of unlawfully distributing opioids to his patients. The defendant was charged in a September 2019 indictment as part of the second Appalachian Regional Prescription Opioid (ARPO) Strike Force Takedown, a coordinated effort by the Justice Department’s Fraud Section to target unlawful drug diversion activities in [...]
A Buncombe County nurse has been arrested on multiple felony charges after allegedly overdosing on medication prescribed to his patient, a Canton juvenile. J. Theodosiou, 24, was initially indicted on two felonies by a Haywood County Grand Jury late last month. According to an SBI press release, Theodosiou, a former in-home registered nurse, allegedly embezzled [...]
A former nurse was found guilty of reduced charges on Monday after taking narcotic drugs that were meant to go to residents in a Watertown nursing home. Melanie J. Hunter, 39, Watertown, was originally charged with a felony count of intentionally abusing residents-causing bodily harm. Hunter entered into a plea agreement and entered no contest [...]
Who steals pain medication from an 83-year-old? This Florida nurse, the state says By David J. Neal July 04, 2020 07:33 AM A licensed practical nurse resigned from a Naples’ senior living facility after being caught on video stealing Percocet, the Florida Department of Health says. That’s in the emergency restriction order (ERO) put on [...]
Missing oxycodone pill: At about 8:14 a.m. a person called to report that the day before, a single 10mg oxycodone pill was listed as administered to a patient at the Brookdale Federal Way senior living facility. The reporting party later discovered that the patient was in the hospital at the time and was not present [...]
A West Hartford pharmacy has agreed to pay a penalty of $150,000 to resolve claims that it lost thousands of doses of a prescription drug meant to treat anxiety and panic disorders, prosecutors say. Suburban Pharmacy Ltc Inc., which is now operating as Suburban Pharmacy Long-Term Care, on Tuesday entered into a civil settlement with [...]
An eastern Iowa nurse has been sentenced to federal prison for stealing medication from an unconscious patient’s IV. Kelly Kristin Postel, 43, of Monticello, was sentenced on Friday in District Court in Cedar Rapid to four months in federal prison for stealing fentanyl and morphine from an unconscious patient by withdrawing the drugs from the [...]
A Dallas doctor has pleaded guilty to a felony for prescription drug diversion crimes perpetrated on elderly victims, announced U.S. Attorney Erin Nealy Cox. Dr. Edward Agura, 63 pleaded guilty before U.S. Magistrate Judge Renee H. Toliver on Tuesday for possession of a controlled substance by misrepresentation or fraud. “Elder abuse by anyone, particularly by [...]