JACKSONVILLE, Fla. - A Riverside woman was arrested Tuesday on charges of practicing medicine without a license after she illegally wrote prescriptions for her boyfriend, the Jacksonville Sheriff's Office said. Pamela Corley, 54, was employed as a medical assistant at a Riverside doctor's office until detectives linked her to prescription medicine fraud, according to her [...]
Three Lansing-area residents, including a former police officer, face felony Medicaid fraud and related drug charges in a prescription medication ring, Michigan Attorney General Bill Schuette announced today.(Photo: Getty Images) Three people are facing fraud charges after a local pharmacist alerted St. Clair County law enforcement of two suspicious prescriptions. According to the county sheriff department, [...]
PICKERING, Ont. — Two people are facing charges after allegedly fraudulent prescriptions were used to obtain fentanyl from a pharmacy east of Toronto. Durham regional police say a man went to a Pickering, Ont., pharmacy last Sunday with a prescription for 30 fentanyl patches, and paid for 10 patches. The pharmacy alerted police and when [...]
(Source: WBTV/File) CHARLOTTE, NC (WBTV) - Multiple people accused of prescription fraud were taken into custody Wednesday night after crashing a vehicle while running from police. Charlotte-Mecklenburg police say they were called to a prescription fraud report at the Walgreens in the 9400 block of Mt. Holly-Huntersville Road around 8:40 p.m. Police say four people [...]
After 70 years as a Santa Barbara staple, L.M. Caldwell Pharmacist is shutting its doors this week after the state’s Board of Pharmacy accused the company of routinely oversupplying powerful painkillers. Since taking over his father’s business in 1967, Peter Caldwell has run two shops on State and Pueblo streets. They were the last of the [...]
PHOENIX – In an unrelenting quest for painkillers, Arizona pill seekers embark on almost daily missions to obtain fake or stolen prescriptions and shop their pain among doctors. Sometimes, pharmacists report, patients try to get “multiple, multiple narcotic” prescriptions from “multiple, multiple doctors.” Though the Arizona State Board of Pharmacy and lawmakers have built ways [...]
JACKSON COUNTY, MS (WLOX) - A Vancleave woman and her husband have been sentenced to prison for the parts they played in a prescription fraud and embezzlement scheme involving a now bankrupt cancer treatment center. A Jackson County jury found Sherrie Bennett, 57, guilty on 14 counts of distributing prescription drugs and bankruptcy fraud on [...]
A Morgan City man was one of two Louisiana men sentenced Friday for their roles in a prescription drug fraud scheme in Pennsylvania that both men pleaded guilty to in September 2016, according to an IRS official. Troy Tapia of Morgan City and Anthony Rouse III of Raceland, who pleaded guilty Sept. 27 to the [...]
KINGSPORT, TN (WJHL) – Earlier this month, a Sullivan County grand jury indicted three people from Kingsport on multiple charges for their roles in a drug conspiracy, said state investigators. The Tennessee Bureau of Investigation reports special agents and a local drug task force began an investigation in June 2015 after receiving reports of prescription [...]
Lansing resident Jennifer Bicego (courtesy of www.michigan.gov)Ryan Kryska | [email protected] LANSING, MI -- Ten people from mid-Michigan are facing felony charges for their alleged role in what Michigan Attorney General Bill Schuette is calling an opioid drug ring. At the center of the ring is Lansing resident Jennifer Bicego, 30, who is accused of illegally [...]