HelioMetrics Comment: This is becoming a very common thing. If you still have blank prescription pads, please make sure they are secured. CLINTON, Miss. — Three people are facing charges in connection with a prescription drug forgery ring in Clinton, police said. Advertisement The investigation began Monday with a call to the Clinton Police Department [...]
A Walgreens employee was arrested Wednesday for allegedly stealing prescription pads and writing herself prescriptions for Percocet. Deane Burkhart, 45, of Wallingford reportedly received 174 pills during several fraudelent transactions in which she'd forged the name of a local physician, Hamden police said. Burkhart, an employee of the Hamden Walgreens at 2505 Whitney Ave., turned [...]
ST. LOUIS • A former resident at St. Louis University Hospital wrote fraudulent prescriptions to obtain pain pills and other drugs for himself and others, a federal indictment claims. That former resident, Kyle Betts, was indicted last week on three felony charges of obtaining a controlled substance by fraud or forgery. Betts' lawyer, Scott Rosenblum, said [...]
A former Midlothian physician was convicted Wednesday of writing 52 prescriptions over 1½ years for highly addictive opioid drugs in a fraud scheme that involved six accomplices and netted the doctor a cut of the narcotics. Dr. Kyle Douglas Compton, 40, whose license to practice has been suspended, issued unlawful prescriptions from his former home-based [...]
WESTAMPTON - A Delanco woman is accused of using a forged prescription in a bid to get painkillers. Stephanie Schwarz, 31, was arrested shortly before 1 p.m. Tuesday at a CVS pharmacy on Springside Road in Westampton, authorities said. Haddonfield woman admits role in scam A pharmacist alerted police after Schwarz allegedly presented a forged [...]
NEWARK -- A 39-year-old South Jersey woman who worked for a pharmaceutical company admitted her role in a multi-pronged scheme that cost her employer nearly a $1 million. Julie Andresen, of Haddonfield, pleaded guilty to one count of conspiracy to commit health care fraud in federal court in Newark on Tuesday, the U.S. Attorney's Office for [...]
HADDONFIELD, NJ — A former pharmaceutical company employee from Haddonfield has admitted to accepting thousands of dollars in exchange for filling medically unnecessary prescriptions for compounded medications for herself and her husband, U.S. Attorney Paul J. Fishman said on Tuesday. The actions of 39-year-old Julie Andresen resulted in the loss of $956,885, according to Fishman. [...]
Updated: Feb 27, 2017 - 6:24 PM ORANGE COUNTY, Fla. - An Orange County dispatcher was arrested last week after a nearly yearlong investigation into an alleged scheme to illegally acquire prescription painkillers. Jojilda Disla, who had been a 911 dispatcher for nine years, is currently suspended without pay as the investigation continues. Disla is [...]
A trial setting in the case of a Marshall woman charged with 134 counts of fraudulently attempting to obtain a controlled substance was reset Monday, Feb. 27, after charges were amended by the Saline County Prosecutor's Office. Eleven additional felony counts were charged against Anne Marie Coke, 36, of Marshall. Each of the 11 new [...]
CTV London Published Friday, February 17, 2017 2:27PM EST Last Updated Friday, February 17, 2017 2:30PM EST Five people are facing various charges following a London police investigation into prescription fraud across the city. On Wednesday, police made the arrests and laid charges against three men and two women between 25 and 45-years-old, all from [...]