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Showing 13 of 730 cases.
| Case / When | Where | Setting | Drug | Method | Role | Prosecution status | Penalty | Source |
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Kansas Pharmacist Indicted for Stealing Adderall, Vyvanse, Ritalin and Oxycodone from Employer
2026-03-30
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Kansas Maize, Kansas |
Pharmacist (Maize, KS; employer not named in filing) | Amphetamine (Adderall), lisdexamfetamine (Vyvanse), methylphenidate (Ritalin), and oxycodone | Allegedly used his position as a pharmacist to acquire the drugs from his employer without authorization, for personal use | not stated | Indicted Mar 30, 2026 on one count of acquiring a controlled substance by deception/subterfuge; case pending | none documented | source |
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Kansas Pharmacy Technician Indicted for Stealing Adderall and Ritalin
2026-01-29
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Kansas Russell, Kansas |
Pharmacy technician, pharmacy in Russell, KS | Amphetamine (Adderall) and methylphenidate (Ritalin) | Allegedly used her position to remove the drugs from the pharmacy's inventory without proper authorization, continuing through March 2025 | not stated | Indicted Jan 29, 2026 on one count of acquiring a controlled substance by deception; case pending | none documented | source |
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Kansas City, Kansas retail pharmacy settles controlled substance recordkeeping allegations
2025-09-24
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Kansas | Retail pharmacy in Kansas City, Kansas | Controlled substances (unspecified); pseudoephedrine retail sales records | not stated | Retail pharmacy and its owner | not stated | none documented | source |
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Kansas City, Kansas grocery pharmacy settles allegations of dispensing before receiving prescriptions
2023-09-14
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Kansas | Retail pharmacy in Kansas City, Kansas | Controlled substances (unspecified) | not stated | Retail pharmacy owned by a Kansas City, Kansas company | not stated | none documented | source |
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Kansas Nurse Sentenced for Tampering with Fentanyl and Hydromorphone Vials
2023-03-13
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Kansas Overland Park, Kansas |
Menorah Medical Center (Overland Park, KS) | Fentanyl + hydromorphone | Removed vials from dispensing cabinet, refilled with substitute liquid | not stated | Pleaded guilty; sentenced Mar 2023 to 18 months | none documented | source |
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Kansas hospital nurse sentenced for tampering with fentanyl and hydromorphone vials
2023-03-13
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Kansas | Hospital in Overland Park, Kansas | Fentanyl and hydromorphone | not stated | Registered nurse | not stated | none documented | source |
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Kansas long-term care pharmacy settles allegations of improper Schedule II emergency dispensing
2022-12-13
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Kansas | Long-term care pharmacy in Lenexa, Kansas | Schedule II controlled substances, including opioid pain medications | not stated | Long-term care pharmacy | not stated | none documented | source |
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KU Hospital Pharmacy Tech Stole 483 Bags of Fentanyl
2018-12-10
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Kansas Kansas City, Kansas |
Pharmacy technician, University of Kansas Hospital (Kansas City, KS) | Fentanyl — 483 IV bags | Used AcuDose cabinet-stocking and expired-medication disposal duties to divert bags; flagged by internal audit's high transaction count | not stated | Pleaded guilty; sentenced to 3 years probation + $4,300+ restitution; pharmacy license revoked | $4,300 (restitution) | source |
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Overland Park pharmacy technician stole hydrocodone and lorazepam, falsified inventories; sentenced to federal probation
2012-04-16
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Kansas | Retail warehouse-club pharmacy, Overland Park, Kansas | Hydrocodone (more than 500 tablets) and lorazepam (approximately 200 tablets) | not stated | Pharmacy technician | not stated | none documented | source |
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Nursing Home Nurse Sentenced for Tampering with a Dementia Patient's Morphine — Kansas, 2012
2012-02-03
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Kansas Topeka, Kansas |
Rolling Hills Health Center, Topeka, KS | Morphine (also hydrocodone at an earlier facility) | Stole morphine from an elderly dementia patient's bottle, diluted it with tap water | not stated | Pleaded guilty; sentenced to 3 years federal prison; surrendered nursing license | none documented | source |
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Nursing Facility Nurse Sentenced for Tampering with Patients' Morphine — Kansas, 2012
2012-01-24
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Kansas Salina, Kansas |
Holiday Resort Nursing Facility, Salina, KS | Morphine | Removed morphine from patient vials with syringes, replaced with sodium chloride solution | not stated | Pleaded guilty; sentenced to 3 years federal prison | none documented | source |
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Manhattan, Kansas registered nurse pleaded guilty to conspiracy to distribute oxycodone and obstruction
2011-06-13
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Kansas | Manhattan, Kansas (facility not identified in the release) | Oxycodone | not stated | Registered nurse | not stated | none documented | source |
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Kansas practical nurse convicted of obtaining prescription drug by fraud; license reinstated under stayed suspension
2006-01-04
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Kansas | Kansas nursing employment (employer not identified in excerpt); criminal case in Johnson County District Court | Prescription-only drug (not named in the order) | not stated | Licensed practical nurse | not stated | none documented | — |
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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.