A Saskatoon home care nurse who admitted to stealing powerful opioid drugs from a patient has had her license suspended for eight months and been ordered to pay a $12,000 fine. Natasha Janzen pled guilty this spring to professional misconduct for taking 10 vials of sufentanyl from a patient in her care in May 2017. [...]
A former nurse who worked in a Tarkio, Missouri, nursing home is facing charges after allegedly stealing medication from residents. A warrant has been issued by the Atchison County Sheriff’s Office for L. Maifeld, a former nurse at Tarkio Rehab and Healthcare, after she allegedly stole more than 25 doses of narcotics from patients. Maifeld [...]
An employee at a pharmacy in Middletown was convicted of theft of drugs. An employee at the CVS pharmacy in Middletown was suspended by the Ohio Board of Pharmacy after she was convicted for stealing stimulants, according to the board's meeting minutes. In April 2018, CVS began noticing shortages in its supply of stimulants, including [...]
A longtime nurse fired by Cambridge Memorial Hospital for stealing narcotics for more than a decade will get a new arbitration hearing, a three-judge panel has ruled. The hospital fired the registered nurse in November 2015 after discovering she stole pain medication. She had worked there for more than 28 years and was about to [...]
A former healthcare worker has been charged with stealing narcotics from a Sebring nursing home. J. Hull, 37, of Washington Township, turned herself in July 18 to Mahoning County Court No. 3 on a charge of theft of a dangerous drug, a fourth-degree felony. Hull later was released after posting a $2,000 bond. Sebring Police [...]
K. Boll, 31, from Manchester, has been charged with 13 counts of acquiring a controlled substance by misrepresentation, fraud, deception and subterfuge during 2018 and one count of tampering with a consumer product, specifically morphine, on December 24, 2018. The charges are contained in an Indictment filed on July 7, 2019, in United States District [...]
A former doctor arrested by Madison Heights police last year was sentenced Monday to more than five years in federal prison for writing bogus prescriptions and identity theft. Dimitar Cvetkoski, 41, of Warren was arrested on Valentine’s Day 2018 by Madison Heights police. U.S. District Judge Paul D. Borman sentenced the former physician to 64 [...]
A former pharmacy technician has been sentenced to just over a year in prison for stealing thousands of opioids from a Chicago pharmacy and selling them for a profit. The U.S. Attorney’s Office in Chicago says 28-year-old Jacqueline Green of Chicago and Elizabeth Cruz of Stone Park conspired to steal more than 56,000 pills of [...]
The Washington State Department of Heath announced Wednesday, July 10, that it indefinitely suspended the credential of a Whatcom County nurse who didn’t comply with a substance abuse monitoring contract after she reportedly stole and injected herself with fentanyl from the surgery center where she worked. Jennifer Michelle Somawang, who was a registered nurse at [...]
The Palm Beach County Sheriff’s Office on Tuesday charged a 45-year-old Palm Beach woman with two counts of drug trafficking, grand theft and transportation of drug paraphernalia after she stole drugs from her employer to sell to buy crack cocaine, a police report said. A. Gillespie fraudulently ordered at least $10,000 worth of narcotics on [...]