A registered nurse faces drug charges after allegedly diverting narcotic pain medication from a local hospital, court records state. J. M. Rothermel, 34, is charged with acquiring or obtaining possession of a controlled substance by misrepresentation, intentional possession of a controlled substance by person not registered and refusal to keep records as required by act, [...]
A former Billings nurse has been sentenced to five years on probation, including six months of house arrest, for stealing a powerful opioid from a hospital for his own use. The U.S. Attorney’s Office says U.S. District Judge Susan Watters sentenced 33-year-old Donald Friedlich Mills II Nov. 2. Mills pleaded guilty in May to fraudulently [...]
A registered nurse is charged with stealing fentanyl and other drugs from University of Missouri Hospital in Columbia. Forty-year-old L. Neal, of Otterville, was charged Thursday with stealing a controlled substance. The Columbia Daily Tribune reports a probable cause statement from officer Kenrick Tucker says Neal took 96 syringes and 16 vials containing fentanyl, four [...]
A Twisp man who served the Brewster area for years as a pharmacist was sentenced Thursday to five years' probation for stealing and abusing opioids from his commercial supply. Brian Shane Johnson, the 41-year-old former owner-operator of Brewster Drug, must also pay a $7,500 fine under his sentence in U.S. District Court in Spokane, after [...]
A Pennsylvania high school principal has resigned after he admitted stealing prescription drugs from the school nurse's office. Michael Flick stepped down as principal of Great Valley High School in Malvern on Tuesday. He's charged with theft and multiple counts of possession of a controlled substance. The 44-year-old Flick had been principal of the school [...]
Nurse steals deadly drug from local hospital (MGN) A nurse is accused of stealing the powerful and potentially deadly drug fentanyl from the local hospital where she works. Court documents say 35-year-old A. Luna took the drugs from Bethesda North on nearly 200 occasions. Luna works in the hospital's Cardiac Cath Lab.
Federal authorities have accused a northern Iowa nurse of stealing prescription drugs and violating federal patient confidentiality laws. U.S. District Court records say 32-year-old S. Rogers is charged with obtaining and attempting to obtain controlled substances by fraud, deception and subterfuge; criminal violations of privacy law; and aiding and abetting. Her attorney didn't immediately return [...]
Iowa Methodist Medical Center has notified even more patients that their pain medication may have been stolen by a pharmacy tech. Victor Van Cleave was sentenced this past July to 30 months in federal prison. He pleaded guilty to stealing fentanyl from patients and replacing it with saline. This happened in 2016. Methodist originally notified [...]
A Johnson County nurse has pleaded guilty to stealing opioid drugs while working at a residential care facility in Gardner, Kansas. 41-year-old Jeremy Keith Bailey pleaded guilty Thursday to possession of a controlled substance, theft and Medicaid fraud. The Kansas Attorney General’s Office said that Bailey surrendered his nursing license as part of the plea [...]
Kaitlyn S. Petrick, 29, of DuBois, a pharmacy technician at Penn Highlands DuBois, who was accused of stealing pain medication from the hospital pharmacy, pleaded guilty and was sentenced to the state Intermediate Punishment Program in SCI Muncy by Judge Paul Cherry last week at sentencing court. Petrick pleaded guilty to acquire or obtain controlled [...]