Jacqueline Lusk(Photo: OCC) A Monroe woman is facing 24 counts of obtaining a controlled dangerous substance by fraud. According to an arrest report, agents with the Metro Narcotics Unit were dispatched to the Walgreens on Cypress Street to investigate Jacqueline Lusk, 43, Rimes Circle on the charges. A warrant states that an agent visited the [...]
A Raeford woman faces a total of 97 charges after allegedly stealing prescription pads from her former employer and forging the signature of a doctor to get methadone and oxycodone, arrest warrants said. Faith Welsh Patterson, 50, of the 100 block of Norris Court, is charged with 34 counts of trafficking in opium or heroin, [...]
A West Virginia woman who pleaded guilty in August to illegally obtaining hundreds of Oxycodone pills in Maryland and West Virginia was sentenced Monday in Washington County Circuit Court to six months in the county detention center. Kristyn Leigh Ours, 35, of Inwood, W.Va., pleaded guilty to 15 counts of obtaining a controlled-dangerous substance by [...]
A Margate doctor pleaded guilty Friday morning to more than $24 million in health benefits fraud in connection with a large-scale prescription fraud federal investigation. John Gaffney, 55, of Linwood, pleaded guilty to conspiracy to commit health-benefits fraud before U.S. District Judge Robert B. Kugler. Gaffney admitted he wrote more than 200 fraudulent prescriptions for [...]
Kristine Renae Baker (Photo: NC State Bureau of Investigation) BURKE COUNTY, N.C. – A Burke County nurse and her husband were arrested last week after investigators said they were responsible for prescription fraud. According to the SBI, Kristine Renae Baker, a nurse practitioner in Burke County, and her husband, Kenneth Alan Chester, were arrested on [...]
An investigation by special agents with the Tennessee Bureau of Investigation has led to the indictment of two Johnson City nurses on charges related to drug diversion and fraud. On Feb. 8, after being contacted by the Tennessee Department of Health Division of Health Related Boards, TBI special agents with the Drug Investigation Division began investigating [...]
DARIEN, CT — A Norwalk medical practice that became known as the “candy shop” for opioid addicts is under investigation and two doctors are facing up to 40 years in prison for what state and federal authorities call an egregious amount of fraud, according to a state lawsuit and federal criminal complaint. The two doctors [...]
MIAMI, FL — A Miami doctor has pleaded guilty to Medicare fraud and illegally writing prescriptions for oxycodone, hydrocodone and alprazolam. Fifty-one year-old Roberto A. Fernandez, pleaded guilty to one count of conspiracy to commit health care fraud and wire fraud. He faces a Sept. 20. sentencing date. Appearing before U.S. District Judge Cecelia M. [...]
Three health care workers at an outpatient psychiatric center in Biloxi are accused of running a prescription drug ring in a conspiracy said to have lasted nearly three years. An indictment unsealed in U.S. District Court identified the three workers and nine people said to have obtained fraudulent prescriptions for a variety of opiods and [...]
ATLANTA (CBS46) - A pain clinic owner, an office manager who was also the wife of the owner, and two doctors have been sentenced for illegally prescribing painkillers to known addicts and drug dealers at three pain clinics in metropolitan Atlanta. Godfrey and Bona Ilonzo, as well as Dr. Nevorn Askari and Dr. William Richardson, [...]