33-year-old Bridget Carr has been arrested for multiple counts of prescription fraud. (Photo: PCSO) PASCO COUNTY, Fla. -- 33-year-old Bridget Carr was arrested for prescription fraud on Saturday after an investigation was done by the Pasco Sheriff's Vice and Narcotics Unit. Carr was an office manager under Dr. Jose Turro, who worked at the doctor's [...]
CHESHIRE — A former employee of a local dental practice faces charges after police say she called in numerous prescriptions for herself using identification numbers she stole from doctors. Jessica Cash, 29, of 327 Merwin Ave., Milford, was arrested this week and charged with two counts each of criminal impersonation, identity theft, illegally obtaining drugs, [...]
SUNSET BEACH, NC (WWAY) – Sunset Beach police returned to North Carolina early this morning with a man wanted for prescription fraud. Police say in late October, they got a call that Keith Sessoms was trying to pass off fake prescriptions at the CVS in Sunset Beach. A detective was nearby and went to the CVS. [...]
BIRMINGHAM, Ala. - A former Huntsville physician now faces federal charges for illegally prescribing controlled substances and with healthcare fraud. Shelinder Aggarwal, 48, was the nation's highest Medicare prescriber of opioid painkillers at the height of his practice. A two-count information filed in U.S. District Court, the U.S. Attorney’s Office charged Aggarwal with one count of distributing [...]
Michael Gowder, DDS, CEO of 45-bed Union General Hospital in Blairsville, Ga., was one of six arrested by federal agents Thursday as part of a multi-state prescription drug sting. Dr. Gowder was charged with two counts of fraudulently obtaining a controlled substance and one count of conspiracy to distribute, according to WSB-2 Atlanta. The ring [...]