What Happened
Licensed pharmacist at the Overton Brooks VA Medical Center in Shreveport was found guilty by a federal jury of 15 counts of acquiring a controlled substance by fraud (hydrocodone taken from veterans' mail-out prescriptions).
Reported status: Convicted by a jury at trial; convicted (2020); sentence not reported in the source.
About This Entry
This entry reports only what the linked source states. Fields the source does not state (for example the employer type, drug schedule or a sentence) are left out rather than inferred, so it is shorter than the registry's fully analysed cases.
Related Guidance
- Pharmacy Self-Assessment Checklist — Self-assessment covering the controls that detect and deter diversion.
- 15 Red Flags of Drug Diversion — Behavioral and recordkeeping indicators of diversion.
- Investigation Playbook — How to run an internal diversion investigation.
- Employee Screening & Fitness for Duty — Screening and vetting for staff with controlled substance access.