In February 2017 a federal grand jury indicted three employees of the Veterans Affairs hospital in Little Rock on charges of conspiring to steal and distribute prescription medication, including opioids, from the facility.

One of the three, a former technician, pleaded guilty in federal court in the last week of September 2017. The available portion of the report does not describe the plea terms or sentencing date.

A separate report in February 2018 described the sentencing of a former pharmacy-technician trainee at the same hospital for a related opioid distribution conspiracy, indicating the case continued through the federal courts into 2018.