A Grand Rapids doctor is facing charges after allegedly writing illegitimate prescriptions in exchange for cash and drugs. Dr. Richard Piazza is accused of writing false prescriptions for opioids to patients he never met. A pharmacist noticed he was filling a lot of prescriptions Piazza had been writing for opioids and thought it was strange, [...]
The Mississippi Bureau of Narcotics has arrested a pharmacy technician in Southaven who’s accused of stealing 1,000 dosage units of hydrocodone. V. Freeman, 23, is accused of embezzling the opiate, which is used to treat severe, long-term pain, from the pharmacy where she worked. Freeman’s arrest stemmed from a two-day investigation by MBN, the U.S. [...]
A Peoria pharmacist had his license placed on indefinite probation after he was found impaired on duty. Peter Shanine, 32, is on indefinite probation for at least the next three years after the Illinois Department of Financial and Professional Regulation found he was impaired on duty, diverting controlled substances, and pleading guilty to theft and [...]
A Salina pharmacist and her husband face federal drug and conspiracy charges. Kirsty and Dalton Hartley, both 28 years old, are charged with one count of conspiring to distribute and dispense controlled substances and one count of obtaining controlled substances by fraud. Kirsty Hartley is also charged with one count of unlawfully distributing and dispensing [...]
A 53-year-old woman is behind bars accused of stealing 500 opioid pills from the Walgreens where she worked. Apex Police Department identified M. Holland Moss as the Walgreens employee accused in the theft. The department said Moss stole around 300 oxycodone pills and 200 hydrocodone pills. The thefts began in September 2018. Moss faces felony [...]
RCMP has laid new charges against an owner and two associates of a Hamilton Mountain pharmacy, alleging more than 400,000 doses of prescription narcotics, including fentanyl, were diverted to the black market. Angelo Kirkopolous, 41, of Hamilton is charged with three counts of possession of a controlled substance (fentanyl, oxycodone and amphetamine) for the purpose [...]
A Greensburg registered nurse was arrested Tuesday for allegedly diverting prescription medication while she worked at Excela Health Westmoreland Hospital, according to court papers. J. D. Zetkulic, 43, is accused by the state Attorney General’s Office of taking narcotic pain relievers from the hospital’s pharmacy over a four-month period. She is free on $20,000 unsecured [...]
A Walgreens employee was arrested Tuesday after she was caught on camera stealing prescription medication from her job, according to the Monroe County Sheriff's Office. Jennifer Forehand, 40, of Key West, was working as a pharmacy technician at the Walgreens in Big Pine Key on Jan. 10 when surveillance video showed her putting pills in [...]
The Henry County constable has been arrested, accused of stealing drugs from an EMS building. The Henry County Local reports Constable Richard Jaehnigen was arrested Jan. 2 by Kentucky State Police. Troopers say in a criminal complaint that Jaehnigen went into the Henry County EMS building and took several drugs. KSP say they received two [...]
A nurse in Collier County is accused of writing prescriptions for himself, and it landed him in jail. Collier County Sheriff’s Office arrested nurse B. Stuber Friday after deputies say he forged a doctor’s signature to write himself a prescription for the painkiller Percocet. Stuber worked at a jail, where he provided care for inmates, [...]