A pharmacist who used to work at the veterans hospital in Shreveport recently has been found guilty of stealing hydrocodone from veterans’ prescriptions. A federal jury convicted 44-year-old Melissa W. Richardson, of Shreveport, on Friday of 15 counts of acquiring a controlled substance by fraud. In April, a federal grand jury indicted her on 20 [...]
A Lakewood nurse pleaded guilty this week to criminal charges that accused her of stealing liquid pain medication from the nursing home where she worked. Michelle Brown, 44, pleaded guilty on Tuesday to theft and drug possession, both felony counts. In exchange for her guilty plea, prosecutors agreed to drop a count of tampering with [...]
A former nurse at two Utah hospitals was sentenced to five years in federal prison for stealing opioids and infecting at least seven patients with hepatitis C, according to The Salt Lake City Tribune. Elet Neilson, 53, who pleaded guilty to two felonies last September, was sentenced by U.S. District Judge Dee Benson Jan. 13. [...]
A woman who allegedly stole fentanyl from the Cincinnati surgery center where she worked at the time was indicted by a grand jury on two felony charges, WLWT Cincinnati reports. B. Roehm, who also goes by B. Byland, is accused of stealing 470 milliliters of fentanyl from Cincinnati Oral, Maxillofacial & Dental Implant Surgery. The [...]
A complaint from a patient who was in pain but didn't receive his medication in October 2018 prompted an internal investigation that led officials at Franciscan Hammond Health to fire a nurse and seek criminal charges, records show. D. C. Juarez, 33, of Hammond, was charged this week with felony failure to make, keep or [...]
A local nurse practitioner has pleaded guilty to charges related to a federal investigation into prescription opioids. Britney Petway, who worked as a nurse practitioner at Superior Health and Wellness Clinic in Jackson, pleaded guilty Friday to charges of conspiring to unlawfully distribute and dispense controlled substances and unlawful distribution of a controlled substance, according [...]
When DEA agents showed up at the Neighborhood Health Center in Riverside to ask about J. Marks, health center officials showed them an official DEA letter praising the nurse practitioner. Investigators say the letter and the DEA seal at the top are both fake. They claim Marks used the fraudulent correspondence to hide the illegal [...]
A former nurse from Dexter entered a guilty plea the same day prosecutors charged her with stealing a patient’s prescription painkillers. According to Stoddard County Prosecuting Attorney Russ Oliver, the case against 33-year-old Kristen Moore is an interesting one. Oliver said Moore admitted taking hydrocodone from a patient at the Winchester Nursing Center in Bernie [...]
A local nurse was caught stealing from the hospital where she worked. B. Sullivan worked at Methodist Le Bonheur as a registered nurse. It is not clear how many patients she cared for. A July audit revealed Sullivan stole drugs from work and even used the meds while she was on the clock, records said. [...]
A Havertown doctor pleaded guilty in federal court Monday to charges that he imported foreign, non-FDA approved injectable medications, then falsely billed health care benefit programs for approximately $2.3 million. Rheumatologist Dr. Thomas J. Whalen, 65, pleaded to a criminal information charging him with one count of health care fraud, one count of importation contrary [...]