U.S. District Judge R. Brooke Jackson, on April 20, 2018, sentenced Marlene Gilmore, 28, to four months in prison after she pleaded guilty to stealing those drugs from North Colorado Medical Center in Greeley in 2016. Past indiscretions involving drug thefts did not bring an end to her medical career. Court documents show that Gilmore
A pharmacist in White Plains, was arrested and presented in Manhattan federal court. According to the allegations in the Indictment unsealed today, the pharmacist filled oxycodone prescriptions that he knew were illegitimate, including prescriptions filled by a customer in multiple variations of his name and date of birth, and prescriptions filled in the names of
Sayegh maintained a corrupt relationship with a co-conspirator, issuing oxycodone prescriptions in his name, variations of his name, his family members’ names, and the names of other individuals in exchange for thousands of dollars in cash, expensive dinners, high-end whisky, cruises, and all-expense-paid trips. Sayegh wrote some of these prescriptions, for which there was no
A staff member allegedly stole drugs from eight clients at the Benedictine Living Community of Duluth. They told an investigator it was easy to do so because "storage and management of medications was poor." The Minnesota Department of Health's Office of Health Facility Complaints on Tuesday reported a substantiated finding of maltreatment at the complex's
A staff member who allegedly stole drugs from eight clients at the Benedictine Living Community of Duluth told an investigator it was easy to do so because "storage and management of medications was poor." The Minnesota Department of Health's Office of Health Facility Complaints on Tuesday reported a substantiated finding of maltreatment at the complex's
in August 2015, Pierce stole a vial of morphine from an emergency kit at Vista Woods. She initially was charged with theft and prohibited acts but later agreed to a plea deal that resulted in a conviction on a charge of possession of a controlled substance, resulting in a sentence of two years’ unsupervised probation.
Mary Panza, a nurse, pleaded guilty to stealing drugs from Ridge View Endoscopy Center in Lone Tree where she had been responsible for tracking the center's drugs. According to the report, instead of handling the drugs appropriately she emptied wasted medication into vials with other drug labels. Ms. Panza said she diverted drugs from the
a rescue crew had gone to Heritage Rehabilitation and Living Center in Winthrop on Sept. 2, 2016, because of a report of a worker with a medical problem and found Landry slow to answer questions. She told them she had been taking Tylenol with codeine that she had obtained in Canada. Once rescuers administered Narcan,
A former North Carolina doctor who admitted giving powerful prescription drugs to female patients in exchange for sex was sentenced on Thursday to three years in federal prison. Dr. Michael Alson Smith traded drugs for sex with at least seven patients at his now-closed Mt. Holly Family Practice in 2017, according to court documents filed
Rachael Hird was raiding the drug cupboard on two nursing wards. The National Health Service (NHS) trust reported the missing medication to police, who searched Hird's home and found the UV-marked codeine in her make-up bag. A disciplinary panel ruled that she had repeatedly taken codeine from the hospital between July and September 2017. A