Case Database
Filter every documented case by date, drug, state, setting, role, prosecution status, and penalty. Search accepts brand or generic drug names, facility names, and cities.
Showing 8 of 730 cases.
| Case / When | Where | Setting | Drug | Method | Role | Prosecution status | Penalty | Source |
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Idaho Falls assisted living employee entered Alford plea to financial card charge after residents' hydrocodone was allegedly swapped for acetaminophen
2023-10
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Idaho | Assisted living center in Idaho Falls | Hydrocodone (allegedly replaced with acetaminophen) | not stated | Assisted living center employee | not stated | none documented | source |
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Eastern Idaho nurse practitioner consented to civil judgment over hydrocodone prescriptions written for a third party
2022-06-14
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Idaho | Eastern Idaho prescribing practice | Hydrocodone | not stated | Nurse practitioner | not stated | none documented | source |
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Boise Hospital Nurse Sentenced for Diverting Fentanyl Vials from an Automated Dispensing Cabinet
2019-04-16
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Idaho Boise, ID |
Hospital, Boise, ID | Fentanyl (100 mcg/2 mL vials) | Accessed an automated dispensing cabinet on at least 28 occasions between Sept. 29 and Nov. 14, 2017, falsifying and manipulating system records to conceal the withdrawals | not stated | Pleaded guilty to obtaining a controlled substance by fraud; sentenced Apr 16, 2019, to three years of probation | none documented | source |
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Lewiston pharmacy technician sentenced to 54 months after stealing nearly 60,000 pills from employer
2019-04-09
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Idaho | Retail pharmacy in Lewiston | Hydrocodone, oxycodone, lorazepam | not stated | Pharmacy technician | not stated | none documented | source |
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Boise hospital nurse diverted fentanyl vials by falsifying dispensing-system records
2019-04
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Idaho Boise, ID |
a hospital in Boise, Idaho | fentanyl, 100 mcg/2 mL vials | Employed as a registered nurse at a Boise hospital with access to a system that monitored the distribution and management of prescription medications, including controlled substances, the nurse accessed the machine and removed fentanyl 100 mcg/2 mL vials on at least 28 occasions by falsifying and manipulating information in the system; the case was charged as obtaining controlled substances by fraud. | not stated | Pleaded guilty on Oct. 25, 2018, and was sentenced to three years of probation, per the U.S. Attorney's office; investigated by a DEA-led Tactical Diversion Squad. | none documented | source |
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Meridian nurse practitioner pleaded guilty to swapping hydrocodone in clinic cabinets for muscle relaxants and forging prescriptions
2018-03-14
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Idaho | Multi-site medical facility in Idaho | Hydrocodone/APAP | not stated | Nurse practitioner | not stated | none documented | source |
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Twin Falls Pharmacy Technician Sentenced for Selling Stolen Oxycodone
2015-05-19
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Idaho Twin Falls, Idaho |
Retail pharmacy (Twin Falls, ID) | Oxycodone and hydromorphone (Dilaudid) tablets | Stole bottles from pharmacy stock; arranged street sales via text and glove-box drops | not stated | Sentenced May 19, 2015 to 12 months + 1 day in federal prison | $1,000 (criminal fine) | source |
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Twin Falls Pharmacy Technician Sold Stolen Oxycodone and Hydromorphone Tablets from Pharmacy Stock
2015-05
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Idaho Twin Falls, ID |
Retail pharmacy, Twin Falls, ID | Oxycodone and hydromorphone (Dilaudid) tablets | Stole bottles of controlled-substance prescriptions from pharmacy stock, arranged sales by text message, and left the bottles in a car glove box in the pharmacy parking lot in exchange for cash | not stated | Sentenced to 12 months and one day in prison, three years supervised release, and a $1,000 fine | 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.