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 [...]
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 [...]
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 [...]
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 [...]
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 [...]
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 [...]
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 [...]
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 [...]
Two pharmacy techs who worked in the Memphis area recently gave up their licenses in separate cases following accusations that they each stole painkiller tablets. One of the cases involves at least 1,200 missing pills, the other involves more than 10,000 pills. Records from the Tennessee Board of Pharmacy don't describe the motivation for the thefts. But [...]
A former nurse, who used patient identities to steal pain pills for himself while employed at Franklin General Hospital in Hampton, was convicted Monday in federal court. James A. Moorehead, 58, of Mason City, pleaded guilty Monday in U.S. District Court to one count of acquiring a controlled substance by misrepresentation, fraud, deception, or subterfuge; [...]