A Keene dentist whose ability to issue prescriptions for controlled drugs was suspended by the N.H. Board of Dental Examiners in November 2014 was recently sentenced on drug charges in Cheshire County Superior Court. Dr. Ayman A. Jacobs, 54, of Keene was found guilty of two charges of misdemeanor possession of an unspecified controlled drug [...]
HARRISBURG, DAUPHIN COUNTY (WBRE/WYOU) The State Attorney General's office has filed charges against Chambre J. Frazier, 27, of Nanticoke. Attorney General Bruce R. Beemer said the charges filed Frazier, are the result of a joint investigation by the Attorney General's Insurance Fraud Section and Bureau of Narcotics Investigation. Investigators with the Attorney General's office have [...]
Dr. Joel Sabean, a South Portland dermatologist convicted last month on charges including tax evasion and writing unlawful prescriptions, has been put on probation by the Maine Board of Licensure in Medicine. The board said that the probation is only to allow Sabean time to close his practice and transfer his patients to other doctors. [...]
REEDSBURG, Wis. (WMTV) --- Reedsburg police were alerted by one of the local pharmacists that she had received a suspicious call. So, when 32-year-old Xavier Coleman showed up to get his prescription, so did the police. When police showed up at the pharmacy, Coleman fled from police. Coleman is being held in Sauk County Jail [...]
Editor’s note. In his column, “that’ll be 240 ‘blue roxys’” David Stanley, RPh, tells of a close personal encounter with someone trying – unsuccessfully to fill an obviously fraudulent prescription. Mr. Stanley raises the issue of red flags, the Nation’s growing awareness of narcotics, and the pressure to fill scripts. This article is a response [...]
BEATRICE – A one-year Gage County Jail sentence has been given to a woman convicted of obtaining a prescription drug by fraud. 25-year-old Alyssa Lange was sentenced in Gage County District Court, Wednesday, by Judge Daniel Bryan Jr. Lange was convicted of obtaining the drug, Oxycodone by fraudulent means, while she was pregnant. The Gage [...]
A Lower Saucon Township couple, on probation in a case that involved providing a teenager with intoxicants, face unrelated drug charges, Hellertown police report. An investigation into fake prescriptions for 30 mg of Adderall being passed at the CVS Pharmacy at 1332 Main St. in Hellertown led borough officers to Lindsay J. Conard, 32, and Sean Robert [...]
BRISTOL — A former city woman is being held on $1.1 million bond after leaving a program and failing to appear in court in connection with charges she was involved in a prescription drug fraud ring. Ashley Bardell, 29, of Terryville, turned herself in Thursday at Bristol Superior Court on five counts of failure to [...]
RACINE — A Chicago man is facing 26 felony charges after reportedly forging prescriptions for hydrocodone for more than a year. According to a criminal complaint: Daniel P. Dinnocenzo, 47, of the 3600 block of South Wood Street, allegedly used the name “John Watt” 13 times between January 2015 and April 2016 to obtain hydrocodone [...]
Prescription fraud is becoming a serious problem in Jamaica, and doctors who flout the law by not ensuring their names and registration numbers are clearly visible on all prescriptions are a major part of the problem. "The major problem is that the doctors do not usually print their names legibly, they don't write it in [...]