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 [...]
A North Iowa occupational therapist has been charged in federal court for stealing prescription drugs and violating patient confidentiality laws after she allegedly went through coworkers' purses and showed up at patients' homes, looking for drugs, documents said. Samantha Jo Rogers, 32, Mason City, was charged in federal court on three counts: • Obtaining and [...]
A federal judge Friday approved an injunction permanently barring a former Akron doctor from prescribing opioids or practicing medicine. Michael P. Tricaso — who founded the Better Living Clinic in Merriman Valley and who once worked as a contracted emergency room physician at Summa Health facilities — agreed to the terms and also agreed to [...]