A Kansas doctor was sentenced to life in prison for selling illegal opioid prescriptions that resulted in a patient’s death. Steven Henson, 57, who worked as a doctor at the Kansas Men’s Clinic in Wichita, gave “dangerous, maximum strength prescriptions to people who did not need them” the Department of Justice announced Friday. Following a [...]
A former registered nurse anesthetist at the Veterans Administration hospital in Madison has been sentenced to three years probation for stealing fentanyl from the hospital. Todd Mehrhoff, 49, of Waunakee, was sentenced by U.S. District Judge James Peterson in federal court in Madison on Tuesday. He pleaded guilty in November to charges of obtaining fentanyl [...]
A registered nurse is facing charges for stealing medication from the nursing home she was employed at. N. S. Soyster, 46, of Martinsburg, turned herself in to Altoona police on Tuesday, Feb. 26, after an investigation by police and the Pennsylvania State Attorney General’s office found that two bottles of liquid morphine intended for two [...]
Federal prosecutors are filing charges against six Iowa women accused of stealing drugs from residents at the nursing homes where they worked. Prosecutors say they used their employment at nursing homes to steal painkillers including Oxycodon and Fentanyl from residents. Charges of “acquiring a controlled substance by misrepresentation, fraud, deception, and subterfuge” were filed against: [...]
Benjamin J. Hurley, 38, of Rigby, was sentenced Monday to three years of probation for obtaining controlled substances, namely Tylenol 3 and 4, by fraud, U.S. Attorney Bart M. Davis said in a news release. Hurley was sentenced by Chief U.S. District Judge David C. Nye. He had pleaded guilty on November 30, 2018. Court [...]
A Georgia nurse accused of using stolen prescription pads to forge opioid painkiller prescriptions has been charged with more than 90 felonies. Cherokee County Sheriff’s Office spokesman Jay Baker tells news outlets 47-year-old S. Lichtenberger was arrested Friday by drug agents who were tipped off to a possible forged prescription by a pharmacy. She’s charged [...]
A Hempfield doctor could be ordered to serve up to 40 years in prison when sentenced this year for prescribing drugs to a patient who died from an overdose in 2015. Dr. Edgar Peske, 80, this week entered a no contest plea to a charge of drug delivery resulting in death, unlawfully prescribing controlled substances [...]
Weatherly police say a Hazleton woman stole medication while she was caring for patients at a borough nursing home. M. Sabo, 47, a licensed practical nurse, later admitted to taking the medication for personal use, according to arrest papers, and was charged with felonies for acquired or obtained possession of a controlled substance by misrepresentation [...]
Prosecutors have reduced a charge filed against a former Massachusetts pharmacy technician accused of stealing nearly 18,000 pills. The Salem News reports the Essex District Attorney's office said Wednesday they were changing the charge filed against 50-year-old L. Tillman from larceny of drugs to obtaining drugs by fraud. A prosecutor says they wanted to reduce [...]
A Greensboro doctor lost his license after the North Carolina Medical Board determined he was over-prescribing controlled substances to people whose records show may have been addicts or giving away the drugs. Wayland Wilson McKenzie, a doctor who specialized in family medicine with Cone Health, appeared before the board on Thursday. The NCMB cited the [...]