There is no bail for the advanced registered nurse practitioner, who was arrested for writing fraudulent prescriptions on Friday. Jodi Levins, 52, of Winter Haven was charged with 32 counts of obtaining a controlled substance by fraud, six counts of criminal use of personal identification and seven counts of trafficking oxycodone, according to the Polk [...]
Former Nebraska State Patrol investigator Christopher G. Kober has been accused by federal prosecutors of stealing drugs while on the job and intending to distribute them to others. The Patrol fired Kober, 44, of Bellevue, in June after an internal investigation, said agency spokesman Cody Thomas. The drug investigator was put on unpaid leave in [...]
DAUPHIN COUNTY, Pa.– Attorney General Josh Shapiro today announced felony charges against a Scranton doctor for over-prescribing 17,504 Oxycodone pills to two patients over a two-year period. Dr. Louis Adamo, 60, of Whitetail Run, Moscow, prescribed 9,540 Oxycodone tablets to Brett Nachand between August 2014 and March 2016. Dr. Adamo also prescribed 7,964 Oxycodone tablets [...]
ST. JOSEPH, MI -- A St. Joseph County foot doctor will lose his medical license after pleading Thursday to charges of diverting opioids and insurance fraud. Dr. Craig Sherwood, a St. Joseph podiatrist, pleaded no contest on Thursday, Oct. 26, to 10 felony counts, according to the Berrien County Prosecuting Attorney's Office. Sherwood pleaded to [...]
A North Carolina woman pleaded guilty after she was caught fraudulently obtaining more than 8,000 hydrocodone opioid pills—all using a Duke neurosurgeon's name and DEA number. Heather Smith Elliott, from Burlington, N.C., pleaded guilty Oct. 4 in the United States District Court for the Middle District of North Carolina to two counts of using forged [...]
GLOBE, AZ - A surgeon from Globe has been indicted on dozens of charges after he allegedly forged the signature of a Phoenix doctor to obtain opioids for his personal use. The indictment against 40-year-old Dr. Jamison Mark Foster was announced by Arizona Attorney General Mark Brnovich on Wednesday. Authorities say the indictment alleges that [...]
The case was investigated by the multi-agency Unified Drug Enforcement Strike Team. A former employee of an Ocala health care provider is suspected of using fake prescriptions to buy Percocet and oxycodone illegally. Elizabeth Gilley, 31, of Ocala, was arrested Tuesday on 12 counts of obtaining prescription drugs by fraud and 12 counts of [...]
GREENSBORO - A Burlington woman was dealt multiple charges after being found to have obtained more than 8,000 hydrocodone pills through forged prescriptions. Heather Smith Elliott pleaded guilty last week after obtaining 8,000 10-325 mg hydrocodone pills from CVS Pharmacy stores in Alamance and Guilford counties. Court documents show Elliott forged around 132 prescriptions for [...]
A Hillsborough County nurse is accused of using a dead person’s identity to get prescription drugs. C. Baker, 52, is accused of using obtaining a drug by fraud and fraudulent use of a deceased person’s information. Baker is a nurse at “Miracles In Motion,” an agency in Temple Terrace that works with people with intellectual [...]
One of 12 people indicted in a probe of a prescription drug ring allegedly run by health-care workers has pleaded guilty to prescription fraud. Kayla Tiara Caldwell, 26, accepted a plea agreement Friday, admitting she fraudulently obtained a prescription for oxycodone in Harrison County on Nov. 25, 2015. She and 11 others were arrested after [...]