Columbus, OH - Jury Convicts 2 Steubenville Brothers of Running Heroin Ring

A United States District Court jury convicted Frederick A. McShan, 37, and David McShan, 42, both of Steubenville, Ohio, of running a Steubenville-area heroin-trafficking organization.

Specifically, Frederick McShan was convicted of one count of conspiracy to possess with intent to distribute more than on... More...   $0 (03-16-2017 - OH)

Plaintiff/appellee GeoSteering LLC sued defendant/appellant Sergey Efremov seeking a temporary restraining order, a temporary injunction, a permanent injunction, and damages. The trial court entered a temporary injunction in GeoSteering’s favor, and Efremov brought this interlocutory appeal.
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BACKGROUND
The service of “geosteering” involves monitoring drilling operations using real-ti... More...   $0 (03-15-2017 - TX)

Los Angeles, CA - Rite Aid Corporation Pays $834,200 to Settle Allegations of Violating the Controlled Substances Act

Rite Aid Corporation has paid $834,200 in civil penalties to the United States to settle claims stemming from alleged violations of the Controlled Substances Act.

Rite Aid paid the civil settlement as part of an agreement reached last week to resolve all... More...   $843200 (03-10-2017 - CA)

Birmingham, AL - Jasper Pharmacist Sentenced to Two Years in Prison for Illegally Dispensing Prescription Drugs

A federal judge sentenced a Jasper pharmacist to two years in prison for illegally dispensing opioid painkillers and other controlled substances.

U.S. District Court Judge Abdul K. Kallon sentenced GEORGE RICHARD BOLLING JR., 55, on one count of conspiring, between Janu... More...   $0 (03-08-2017 - AL)

Mobile, AL - Two Mobile Pain Doctors Convicted After Seven-Week Trial

Dr. Xiulu Ruan and Dr. John Patrick Couch of numerous felonies following a seven-week trial.

Prior to the execution of multiple search warrants by the FBI and DEA on May 20, 2015, Dr. Ruan and Dr. Couch jointly owned and operated two pain management clinics under the name Physicians Pain Specialists of Alabama ... More...   $0 (03-08-2017 - AL)

Plaintiff-Appellant Phillip Turner was video recording a Fort Worth
police station from a public sidewalk across the street when Defendants-
Appellees Officers Grinalds and Dyess approached him and asked him for
identification. Turner refused to identify himself, and the officers ultimately
handcuffed him and placed him in the back of a patrol car. The officers’
supervisor, Def... More...   $0 (02-28-2017 - TX)

– Costco Wholesale will pay $11.75 million to settle allegations that its pharmacies violated the Controlled Substances Act when they improperly filled prescriptions for controlled substances.

The settlement announced today resolves allegations that Costco pharmacies filled prescriptions that were incomplete, lacked valid DEA numbers or were for substances beyond various doctors... More...   $0 (02-23-2017 - )

Lexington, KY - Berea Pharmacist Found Guilty of Illegally Dispensing Hundreds of Thousands of Prescription Pills and Thousands of Boxes of Pseudoephedrine and Money Laundering

A Berea pharmacist, Lonnie Hubbard, age 41, has been convicted by a federal jury of 71 counts, including fifty-six drug counts, involving the illegal dispensing of controlled substances without a legitimate medical... More...   $0 (02-19-2017 - KY)

Auto insurers in Oregon must provide personal
injury protection (PIP) benefits to their insureds for certain
automotive injury-related expenses, regardless of who is at
fault in an accident. ORS 742.520(1). The PIP medical benefits
at issue in this case “consist of the following payments for
the injury or death of each person” covered: “All reasonable
and necessary expenses... More...   $0 (02-16-2017 - OR)

West Palm Beach, FL - Jury Convicts Doctor of Running A Pill Mil

The State of Florida charged Dr. Richard McMillan, age 45, with racketeering, conspiracy to commit racketeering and nine counts of trafficking in oxycodone.

McMillan and Pasquale Gervasion ran Total Medical Express clinics in Boca Raton, Palm Springs and Margate before being arrested in 2011.

The State cl... More...   $0 (02-16-2017 - )

On the evening of July 26, 2014, Kansas City, Kansas, Police Officers David Hopkins and Tim Fowler were on patrol when they observed a 2002 Ford Windstar van with a cracked windshield. Due to the condition of the windshield, the officers initiated a traffic stop. Officer Hopkins approached the driver's side of the van and made contact with the driver, who was identified as Rodriguez-Mendez. Office... More...   $0 (02-14-2017 - KS)

Plano, TX - North Texas Pharmacy and Owner Agree to pay $400,000 to Resolve Allegations

Trinity Pharmacy in Carrollton, Texas, and one of its owners, Jonathan Paul Lipe, have agreed to pay the United States $400,000 to settle alleged violations of the Controlled Substances Act.

The Controlled Substances Act (CSA) is the primary federal law regulating the distribution and availabi... More...   $400000 (02-09-2017 - TX)

Houston, TX - Pharmacist Pleads Guilty in Pill Mill Case

Owned and Operated GenPharm Pharmacy on Wheatland Road in Desoto, Texas

A registered pharmacist who owned, operated and served as the pharmacist in charge of GenPharm Pharmacy on Wheatland Road in Desoto, Texas, Ndufola Kigham, appeared in federal court before U.S. District Judge Sidney A. Fitzwater and pleaded guilty to fe... More...   $0 (02-04-2017 - TX)

Tulsa, OK - Dewey Man Pleads Guilty To $8.2 Million K2 Conspiracy

John Ray James of Dewey, pleaded guilty before United States District Judge Claire V. Egan to his role in a conspiracy related to the purchase and sale of $8.2 million of synthetic cannabinoids, also known as K2, at three retail smoke shops in Tulsa, Owasso and Claremore in violation of 18 U.S.C. 371.

At his chang... More...   $0 (01-26-2017 - OK)

A detective assigned to the St. Charles County Drug Task Force was reviewing the
National Precursor Log Exchange ("NPLEX") for suspicious pseudoephedrine purchases
when he noticed that Debra Galebach had purchased an unusually large amount of
pseudoephedrine: four purchases within 38 days, including a purchase made earlier that
day. Three task force detectives went to Galebach... More...   $0 (01-20-2017 - MO)

Los Angeles, CA - Costco Wholesale to Pay $11.75 Million to Settle Allegations of Lax Pharmacy Controls - Costco Pharmacies Filled Prescriptions that Were Improper or Incomplete

Costco Wholesale will pay $11.75 million to settle allegations that its pharmacies violated the Controlled Substances Act when they improperly filled prescriptions for controlled substances.

The... More...   $11750000 (01-20-2017 - CA)

In July 2011, the Washington County Grand Jury indicted the Appellant for DUI and DUI per se. The Appellant filed a pretrial motion to suppress, which the trial court summarily denied when the Appellant failed to show up for the suppression hearing. During the Appellant‟s first trial, the trial court declared a mistrial.1 The Appellant was retried in July 2014.

At trial, Trooper... More...   $0 (01-18-2017 - TN)

Buffalo, NY - Williamsville Doctor Pleads Guilty To Prescription Drug Charge

Dr. M. Yusuf A. Siddiqui, 72, of Williamsville, NY, pleaded guilty to obtaining controlled substances by fraud. The charge carries a maximum penalty of four years in prison and a $250,000 fine.

Assistant U.S. Attorney Patricia Astorga, who is handling the case, stated that on October 13, 2016, the defend... More...   $0 (01-12-2017 - NY)

New York, NY - Owner Of Utah-Based Pharmaceutical Distributer Pleads Guilty To $100 Million Health Care Fraud Scheme

Randy Crowell, a/k/a "Roger," pled guilty today before United States District Judge Edgardo Ramos to fraudulently distributing more than $100 million worth of prescription drugs obtained on a nationwide black market. CROWELL used a Utah-based wholesale distribution company... More...   $0 (01-11-2017 - NY)

[¶1] Twenty-year-old Romeo Parent was killed in April 2013. He had
been stabbed in the back of the neck, beaten, and choked. William True was
charged with, and found guilty by a jury of, the intentional or knowing, or
depraved indifference murder of Parent.1 True appeals from the judgment of
conviction entered by the court (MG Kennedy, J.). See 17-A M.R.S. § 201(1)(A),
(B) (201... More...   $0 (01-05-2017 - ME)

We summarize the facts briefly, drawing on the
presentence report (PSR) and the transcript of the sentencing
hearing. See United States v. Jiminez, 498 F.3d 82, 84 (1st Cir.
2007). We reserve further discussion of the facts for where they
become relevant to each issue raised by Stile's appeal.
In the early evening of September 12, 2011, Stile entered
the E.W. Moore ... More...   $0 (01-03-2017 - ME)

According to the record, in the late night/early morning hours of September
27-28, 2011, there was a series of drive-by shootings in Alexandria. One of those
shootings resulted in the death of Joe Marzette and another resulted in a gunshot
wound to the leg of Darryl White.1 Thereafter, the defendant, Tedrick Jewan
Richardson, was charged with one count of second degree murder, a vi... More...   $0 (12-29-2016 - LA)

Albuquerque, NM - Former Pharmacy Technician from Carlsbad Pleads Guilty to Misdemeanor Crime for Unlawful Possession of Oxycodone - Defendant Prosecuted Under HOPE Initiative which Seeks to Reduce Opioid-Related Deaths in New Mexico

Amber Kay Otero, 31, of Carlsbad, N.M., pled guilty to the misdemeanor offense of unlawfully possessing a controlled substance.

Otero was arrested ... More...   $0 (12-25-2016 - NM)

On June 7, 2013, after a nearly month-long investigation regarding a clandestine
methamphetamine operation, a detective with the Vermont State Police applied for and obtained a
warrant to search the residence and curtilage at a specified address on Windmill Point Road in
Alburg, Vermont. The search warrant was executed three days later by the state police and
associated law en... More...   $0 (12-17-2016 - VT)