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Showing 6 of 730 cases.
| Case / When | Where | Setting | Drug | Method | Role | Prosecution status | Penalty | Source |
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Peoria Pharmacist Forged Oxycodone Prescriptions for Personal Use and Sale
2026-06-24
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Arizona Peoria, Arizona |
not stated | Oxycodone | Forged prescriptions using his own pharmacist credentials, diverting the pills for personal use and street sale | Licensed pharmacist, Peoria, AZ | Charged Jun 24, 2026 — fraud, aggravated identity theft, forgery, and four counts of sale/transportation of narcotic drugs | none documented | source |
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Licensed pharmacist charged with diverting oxycodone via fraudulent prescriptions for personal use and sale
2026-06
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Arizona Peoria, AZ |
Peoria, AZ | Oxycodone | Allegedly abused their position to generate fraudulent prescriptions for oxycodone, diverting the controlled substances for personal use and sale. | not stated | Charged with Fraud, Aggravated Identity Theft, Forgery, and four counts of Sale or Transportation of Narcotic Drugs. | none documented | source |
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Arizona pharmacist and technician sentenced for diverting over 200,000 opioid tablets through two Phoenix-area pharmacies
2018-11-30
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Arizona | Two pharmacist-owned retail pharmacies in the Phoenix metro area | Oxycodone, hydrocodone, alprazolam, promethazine with codeine | not stated | Pharmacist (pharmacy owner) and pharmacy technician | not stated | none documented | source |
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Phoenix-Area Pharmacist and Technician Diverted More Than 200,000 Opioid Tablets from Two Pharmacies
2018-11-28
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Arizona Peoria / Phoenix, AZ |
Two retail pharmacies, Phoenix metro area, AZ | Oxycodone, hydrocodone, alprazolam, and promethazine with codeine | Processed fraudulent prescriptions through two pharmacies to distribute over 200,000 opioid tablets and thousands of alprazolam tablets into the community | not stated | Convicted of conspiracy to distribute controlled substances and launder proceeds; sentenced Nov 28, 2018, to 120 months (pharmacist) and 48 months (technician) in prison | none documented | source |
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Scottsdale Surgery Center Nurse Surrenders License After Diverting Fentanyl and Dilaudid
2017-05-02
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Arizona Scottsdale, AZ |
Ambulatory surgery center (Scottsdale, AZ) | Fentanyl and hydromorphone (Dilaudid) | Tampered with narcotic vials on hand at the surgery center and refilled them with sterile saline to conceal the theft | not stated | Surrendered Arizona nursing license May 2, 2017; later indicted on 23 drug-diversion felony counts | none documented | source |
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Tucson hospital reached civil settlement with the United States after DEA investigation of missing controlled substances
2009-03-27
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Arizona | Hospital in Tucson | Controlled substances (several doses reported missing; specific drugs not identified in the source) | not stated | Hospital (institutional controlled-substance registrant) | not stated | none documented | source |
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What each column does and doesn't cover
Every case states When (date) and Where (state) — 730 of 730. Beyond that, a blank cell means the source record does not state that fact, not that it did not happen:
- Setting: stated in 649 of 730 cases (89%)
- Drug: stated in 657 of 730 cases (90%)
- Method: stated in 474 of 730 cases (65%)
- Prosecution status: stated in 474 of 730 cases (65%); a documented penalty (fine, settlement, or restitution) exists for 77 of 730 cases (11%)
- Role: stated in only 255 of 730 cases (35%) — filtering or sorting by role silently hides the rest of the registry, which may still describe the same role in prose without a structured field
Why: documented failure modes
A separate text analysis of the 723 case summaries found 371 cases (51.3%) matching at least one named failure-mode pattern below. 352 cases (48.7% of 723) matched none of these categories - most of these are short board-order summaries ("licensee diverted controlled substances from their employer") that state an outcome without describing a mechanism, not cases where no failure occurred. A case can match zero, one, or several categories — these are corpus-level counts, not a per-case tag, and are not used as a row filter above: reproducing the exact category membership per case from the stored patterns did not exactly match this file's hand-curated counts on independent re-check, so no individual case here is labeled with a "why" that this code cannot verify.
Text names an act of replacing/refilling the drug with a named substitute (saline, water, an OTC pill, a cleaning product, etc.), OR uses swap/dilute/tamper to describe the same act, so the altered container went back into use looking unchanged.
Text uses stole/stealing/embezzled to describe removal of controlled substances.
Text uses a form of "falsif-" within 60 characters of a record-type noun (chart, inventory, transaction, receipt, prescription, etc.).
Text explicitly characterizes the prescription(s) as fraudulent, forged, invalid, or issued outside legitimate medical practice (including "pill mill" language).
Text names an automated dispensing cabinet/machine, or the acronym ADC, as part of the mechanism.
Text describes recording or claiming drug as "waste" (when it was not), pulling drug from a waste stream, or wastage that was not independently witnessed.
Text describes cancelling, voiding, or falsely entering a system transaction (an order, a return-to-stock entry, a cancel entry) specifically to conceal a removal.
Text states the FACILITY (not an individual concealing personal use) failed to maintain required inventory/records, or names a recordkeeping violation/negligent recordkeeping as the basis for the government action.
Text describes using a fictitious patient profile, a false name/identity, stolen patient information, or impersonating a licensed prescriber to obtain the drug.
Text states a failure to notify or report a loss, theft, or suspected diversion to a regulator.
Disclaimer
Case summaries are based on public records (DOJ press releases, court documents, news reports). Charges are allegations unless a conviction is noted. Analysis is educational, not legal advice.
Last reviewed: September 2026 · Content is educational, not legal advice.