Share Tweet The St. Petersburg Times posted an interesting article over the weekend detailing the many issues involved in the prescription drug abuse mess. The full article can be found at the link below: www.tampabay.com/news/health/article1123878.ece The article is good because it does not attempt to take sides. The write is not interested in blaming doctors, [...]
Entries from September 3rd, 2010
Maybe We Can’t Stop Prescription Meds.?
September 27th, 2010 · No Comments · Criminal Defense
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Mistrial In Dr. Mubang Case
September 17th, 2010 · No Comments · Criminal Defense
Share Tweet This probably should not be a big surprise. Dr. John Mubang of Tampa was on trial this week accused of “drug trafficking” for over prescribing pain medication to undercover Tampa Police Department detectives. Specifically, undercover officers posed as auto accident victims who claimed to be suffering from injuries caused by their accidents. The [...]
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Operation Pill Popper
September 16th, 2010 · No Comments · Criminal Defense
Share Tweet In the never ending battle against prescription pain medications, the Pinellas County Sheriff’s Office, earlier this year, initiated “Operation Pill Popper II.” The investigative program is run by PCSO’s Strategic Diversion Task Force which has been gathering evidence against 175 suspects. The program is run like previous “drug” roundups or “sting” operations that [...]
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Dr. on Trial for Over Prescribing Pain Meds.
September 15th, 2010 · No Comments · Criminal Defense
Share Tweet This should be interesting, if not ground breaking. In what is believed to be the first of its kind in this country, a Tampa doctor is on trial for “drug trafficking” for, essentially, prescribing unnecessary pain medications in “bad faith.” The link below gives the full text of the St. Petersburg Times article [...]
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Bring Your Credit Card to Jail
September 14th, 2010 · No Comments · Criminal Defense
Share Tweet At least in Pinellas County. The Pinellas County Sheriff’s Office recently implemented a program where people taken into custody can use their credit card to post bail directly with the jail. Their is a limit — you can only use your credit card to cover up to $750.00 of your bail bond amount. [...]
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Ex-Wrestler Arrested on Prescription Drug Charges
September 9th, 2010 · No Comments · Criminal Defense
Share Tweet If you ever watched professional wrestling in the 1980′s you might remember Jim “the Anvil” Neidhart who often wrestled with Brett “the Hitman” Hart. If you read the St. Petersburg Times on September 7, 2010, you may now remember Mr. Neidhart as an alleged criminal. Mr. Neidhart is accused of breaking into the [...]
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X-Ray Tech Accused of Pain Pill Fraud
September 8th, 2010 · 1 Comment · Criminal Defense
Share Tweet Pharmacists at a local Target Store provided the Pinellas County Sheriff’s Office with a “tip” that Jessica Rhodes, an x-ray technician, was passing fraudulent prescriptions for hydrocodone. Ms. Rhodes supposedly passed 121 separate fraudulent prescriptions between April 8, 2009 and June 30, 2010 at local CVS and Target pharmacies. Ms. Rhodes was arrested [...]
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Unlicensed Contracting
September 3rd, 2010 · No Comments · Criminal Defense
Share Tweet There are some activities that you may not realize qualify as criminal conduct. One is “Unlicensed Contracting” which can be found at Florida Statute 489.127. Under that statute, a person can not “engage in the business or act in the capacity of a contractor … without being duly registered or certified or having [...]
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