An Oakland County doctor has been sentenced to 60 months in prison for his role in a scheme to unlawfully distribute more than 23,000 prescription pain pills. The U.S. Attorney's Office said 70-year-old Dr. Alex Kafi of West Bloomfield confessed that, from 2013 to May of 2017, he wrote medically unnecessary prescriptions for Oxycodone -- an addictive and dangerous opioid drug [...]
A former Porter Regional Hospital nurse has been sentenced to one year of probation, after pleading guilty to one of the four charges filed against her in connection with her personal use of fentanyl--a powerful synthetic opioid--obtained from an automated dispenser at the hospital. Allison Henry, 26, of Porter Township, pleaded guilty to obtaining a [...]
A Fairfield County nurse is facing charges for allegedly stealing pain medication from patients for several months, police said. The director of the Maplewood at Darien notified investigators at the Darien Police Department that an employed nurse had been stealing prescription controlled substances from residents. Police said that the nurse in question, identified as Bridgeport [...]
The director of the Maplewood at Darien notified investigators at the Darien Police Department that an employed nurse had been stealing prescription controlled substances from residents. Police said that the nurse in question, identified as Bridgeport resident S. Thompson, 34, stole 50mg Tramadol - an opioid pain medication that requires a prescription - pills from [...]
We trust them to take care of us and family members in the hospital, nursing homes and the doctor's office. But, ABC57 is uncovering a startling number of nurses are stealing and abusing powerful drugs while on the job. Just this past may, Creekside Village Nursing Home in Mishawaka, made a police report claiming someone [...]
A 31-year-old Cushing woman has been placed on six years’ probation with extensive conditions for stealing students’ ADHD medication from the Cushing Upper Elementary School while she was working as a custodian there in November 2018, a felony to which she pleaded guilty Friday. Evelyn Denise Roberts was ordered to not work in any school [...]
Frank Lazzerini, once a respected doctor with a thriving Jackson Township practice, left the Stark County Courthouse Tuesday afternoon as a felon. After hearing testimony for nearly five weeks, a Common Pleas Court jury backed the prosecution’s stance that Lazzerini irresponsibly prescribed medications, documented exams that never happened and defrauded Medicaid. Lazzerini, 41, of Barberton, [...]
A former Harrison County jailer accused of working while intoxicated and facing criminal charges was booked into jail for a second time and accused of stealing from the jail. David Earl Jones, 49, of Hallsville, is now charged with abuse of official capacity. He was booked on the charge on Sunday and he posted a [...]
The Tennessee Board of Nursing has suspended the license of Registered Nurse Ashley Hodges for unprofessional conduct after she admitted to diverting Fentanyl, Morphine, Hydromorphone, Propofol, Diprivan, and more from 3 hospitals, each of which fired her within a 7 month period. Ashley Anne Hodges, of White House, TN, was granted a Registered Nurse license [...]
A Tennessee nurse has had her license revoked after allegedly stealing her assisted live in patient’s pain pills – and in turn getting high while at work. M. Hoke, 41, of Ashland City, Tennessee, worked as Assistant Executive Director at the local Vantage Point Assisted Living facility for the elderly until being forced to resign [...]