When given the choice between offering pain-stricken patients palliative care with morphine and fentanyl injections and diverting the drugs for his own illicit use, a paramedic who worked in Greene and Hawkins counties allegedly opted for personal opioid-induced numbness, according to an indictment returned by a federal grand jury on Tuesday. The panel indicted Nathan [...]
A former Owl pharmacy technician in Lewiston was sentenced to 4½ years in federal prison Tuesday for stealing almost 60,000 prescription pills. Idaho Chief U.S. District Judge David C. Nye sentenced Marcella Moore, 44, to the prison term followed by three years of supervised release and ordered her to pay Owl Pharmacies $30,000 in restitution. [...]
A 69-year-old physician is heading to federal prison for illegally prescribing opioids at clinics in Georgia. A U.S. District Court judge sentenced Dr. Vinod Shah to six years in prison after he pleaded guilty to conspiracy to illegally dispersing drugs. The Valdosta Daily Times reports Shah admitted in a plea agreement to prescribing addictive opioids [...]
A former nurse at the Providence VA Medical Center has been sentenced for tampering with hospital prescriptions. Rhode Island U.S. Attorney Aaron Weisman said Friday 35-year-old Jared Scott, of West Warwick, Rhode Island, was sentenced to 24 months in federal prison. Scott acknowledged that he removed liquid opioids from vials at the hospital for his [...]
A Milford doctor who owns a second home in East Stroudsburg was sentenced Wednesday to more than 27 years in prison. Dr. Fuhai Li, 54, received a sentence of 330 months’ imprisonment followed by six years of supervised release for unlawfully prescribing opioids to 23 former patients, including a Honesdale woman who died as a [...]
In January, T. Wotring, 36, of Bruceton Mills, West Virginia, was a flight medic whose responsibilities included being responsible for a safety pouch containing numerous controlled substances. The general manager of Tri-State allegedly performed an audit in January, discovering that a secured bag had its lock broken, and all six drugs kept inside — morphine, [...]
A high-ranking Contra Costa County Fire Protection District official who is fighting felony embezzlement and drug possession charges was given a job with access to narcotics even though his bosses knew he previously had been in drug-related trouble, according to records obtained by this news organization. Years before his January arrest on suspicion of possessing [...]
A nurse was charged Thursday with taking prescription painkillers from patients in a White Lake long-term care facility. A. E. Jones, 40, a registered nurse from Brandon who worked at the facility, is charged with misrepresentation to obtain a controlled substance, a Class 4 felony. An affidavit filed by Pat Kneip, a special assistant attorney [...]
Two Town of Tonawanda paramedics were suspended pending termination proceedings Monday by the Tonawanda Town Board after they were accused of allegedly taking discarded prescription drugs from a drug deposit container in the town's police headquarters. A news release from Tonawanda Police Lt. Thomas Haynes identified them as J. Cinelli, 52, and J. Pecoraro, 40. [...]
A former Wyoming physician has been charged with unlawful drug distribution. The Casper Star-Tribune reported Monday that a federal grand jury indicted David R. Cesko last week with involvement in the unlawful distribution and dispensation of anti-anxiety drugs, stimulants and painkilling opioids. Court documents say Cesko was charged with 32 counts related to prescriptions written [...]