Drug Diversion in the News

Ex-School Indiana Nurse Could Avoid Jail in Missing Medicine Case

2021-07-26T15:58:45-05:00September 13th, 2018|Categories: Drug Diversion in the News|

A former middle school nurse in northern Indiana has pleaded guilty to stealing students' medication as part of an agreement that could allow her to avoid jail time in the case. The Rochester Sentinel reports 35-year-old Ashley N. Beck of Rochester is awaiting sentencing Sept. 26 in Fulton Superior Court after entering the plea last [...]

$100K bond set in Springfield nurse practitioner

2021-03-16T16:47:32-05:00September 10th, 2018|Categories: Drug Diversion in the News|

A Springfield nurse practitioner indicted for felony drug trafficking had a bond in the case set at $100,000, according to online court records. D. Shrewsbury was indicted on multiple counts of aggravated trafficking in drugs and aggravated possession of drugs, according to a press release by the Ohio Board of Pharmacy. He pleaded not guilty [...]

Warren County Nurse Jailed For Allegedly Stealing Patients Pain Meds

2021-03-16T17:38:45-05:00September 6th, 2018|Categories: Drug Diversion in the News|

A Warren County, Pa., nurse is facing charges after allegedly stealing prescribed pain medication from more than 15 patients at a Warren nursing home. According to investigators, that included switching liquid morphine prescribed to a terminally-ill cancer patient with a similar color of Gatorade. Kellie A. Gentz, 30, Tidioute, Pa., was charged by the Pennsylvania [...]

Killer Michigan nurse admits diluting patients Valium to steal it for herself – causing one four-year-old patient to die from a seizure

2021-08-03T15:43:58-05:00August 30th, 2018|Categories: Drug Diversion in the News|

Kristie Ann Mollohan, 40 (pictured), of Kalamazoo, Michigan pleaded guilty in connection with diluting liquid diazepam (Valium) prescribed to her patients to control their seizures on federal court on Thursday A former Michigan home nurse has admitted to stealing lifesaving medicine from three patients, which led to the death of a four-year-old boy. Kristie Ann [...]

Minnesota Pharmacist Sentenced for Stealing Drugs

2021-07-26T15:55:29-05:00August 30th, 2018|Categories: Drug Diversion in the News|

A Maple Grove pharmacist who admitted stealing 2,000 pills has been sentenced to 4 months in the county workhouse and three years of probation. Hennepin County Attorney Mike Freeman said Thursday 49-year-old Jeffrey Grothaus has been ordered to report to the Plymouth lockup Sept. 19. Grothaus earlier pleaded guilty to four felony counts of theft [...]

Former Green Bay pharmacist gets probation for stealing $10000 in medication

2021-08-03T15:49:55-05:00August 30th, 2018|Categories: Drug Diversion in the News|

A former pharmacist in Gillett, whose addiction led to the theft of prescription drugs from her store, has been granted two years probation. Angela M. Lane’s crime was in some ways comparable to first-offense drunk driving, said Judge Michael Judge, with making a bad choice. Nearly $10,000 of medication was found missing from the HSHS [...]

Kentucky nursing home employee arrested for allegedly taking meds

2021-08-03T15:53:36-05:00August 30th, 2018|Categories: Drug Diversion in the News|

A Magoffin County woman was arrested on Friday for allegedly taking medications from patients while working at a nursing home in Lexington. According to the arrest warrant, S. R. Bailey, 42, of Royalton, is accused of taking medications from Northpoint Lexington Healthcare Center while she was an employee. The medications, described in the arrest warrant [...]

Mass. nursing home nurse sentenced for stealing oxycodone

2021-08-03T16:03:36-05:00August 29th, 2018|Categories: Drug Diversion in the News|

A nurse working at a Milford nursing home will serve four years of probation and six months of home confinement for stealing prescription painkillers. Charlotte Demers, 37, of Providence, was sentenced in federal court Tuesday after pleading guilty more than a year ago to four counts of tampering with a consumer product. According to federal [...]

Ontario pharmacy technician suspended for misappropriating narcotics

2021-08-03T16:12:37-05:00August 27th, 2018|Categories: Drug Diversion in the News|

The Ontario College of Pharmacists has suspended the license of a former pharmacy technician at the Thunder Bay Regional Health Sciences Centre after she admitted to misappropriating narcotics for her own personal use. The College found that the woman helped herself to numerous oxycodone tablets between mid-March and mid-June of 2016. The hospital notified the college about [...]

Ill. Paramedic Sentenced to Prison for Stealing Fentanyl

2021-08-03T16:13:55-05:00August 23rd, 2018|Categories: Drug Diversion in the News|

August 22—A former MedStar Ambulance paramedic has been sentenced to just over nine years in prison for stealing drugs from an ambulance. A jury in East St. Louis had previously convicted 44-year-old Jason Laut, of O’Fallon, on 38 counts of a federal indictment following a two-week trial, according to a news release from the United States [...]

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