Abraham was previously employed at two local Veterans Affairs hospitals in the Tampa-area. As a VA physician, he was authorized by the DEA to write prescriptions for controlled substances only as part of official federal duties. According to the plea agreement, Abraham resigned from the VA to work at a pain management clinic in Tampa. His official federal duty registration was not transferable, and Abraham did not obtain a new DEA registration to write controlled substance prescriptions to the patients he saw while employed at the clinic.
From August to March , while at the clinic, Abraham wrote over 2, prescriptions for controlled substances, including more than prescriptions for hydromorphone and over 1, prescriptions for oxycodone. On March 8, , Abraham admitted to federal agents that he knew his official federal duty DEA registration number could not be used at the clinic, and agreed to surrender his DEA registration.
Wells, Jr. Bragg in North Carolina. Alcira Wells obtained from her mother-in-law, a nurse at a Navy hospital in Jacksonville, Florida, signed prescription forms prescribing Centurion-marketed compounded creams to Edward Wells and his brother.
The Wellses then submitted numerous fraudulent prescriptions for Centurion-marketed compounded medications for U. Army personnel stationed at Ft. Bragg and others living in Connecticut, which prescriptions the Jacksonville-based physician never wrote, authorized, or knew about. Edward Wells handed out Centurion prescription forms to personnel stationed with him in North Carolina, most of whom were subordinate in rank, and paid and offered to pay these TRICARE beneficiaries to obtain the compounded creams.
Centurion paid and promised to pay Alcira Wells and those working with her commissions for each filled prescription. Dion Gregory Fisher and Samuel Blaine Huffman have been charged with conspiracy to possess with the intent to manufacture and distribute, and possession with the intent to distribute, counterfeit oxycodone pills made with fentanyl and a fentanyl analogue.
Fisher is also charged with multiple counts of distributing the counterfeit oxycodone pills and engaging in money laundering-illegal monetary transactions using proceeds of the drug crimes.
Phillip Morose has been charged with conspiracy to possess with the intent to distribute and to distribute counterfeit oxycodone pills made with fentanyl and a fentanyl analogue. Christopher McKinney has agreed to plead guilty to conspiring with Fisher, Morose and others to manufacture and distribute counterfeit oxycodone pills made with fentanyl and a fentanyl analogue.
According to the plea agreement, Fisher and McKinney manufactured and sold counterfeit oxycodone pills. Fisher supplied the fentanyl and pill processing materials, and pressed the powder fentanyl into counterfeit oxycodone pills with the help of Huffman.
McKinney sold the pills to Morose, using the U. Mail to exchange packages of pills and currency. His change of plea hearing is set for July 2, Konrad Guzewicz has entered pleas of guilty to four counts of money laundering. According to the plea agreement, Guzewicz engaged in illegal monetary transactions involving proceeds of the drug crimes with which Fisher has been charged.
Caridad Limberg-Gonzalez and Dr. Thomas Carpenter have been charged with one count of conspiracy to commit health care fraud and wire fraud, four counts of health care fraud and three counts of making false statements in connection with heath care matters. According to the indictment, Limberg-Gonzalez owned Foundational Health, a Tampa-area clinic, and Carpenter was the medical director there. In addition, Limberg-Gonzalez gave Carpenter plans of care and face-to-face encounter forms authorizing home health services to sign.
Carpenter signed the documents, even though he never saw or cared for the patients identified in those documents. Roselle Fitzgerald has been charged with one count of theft of government funds, two counts of false statement to a federal agency, seven counts of counterfeit or forged securities, and three counts of fraudulent use of a means of identification.
City: Tampa. State: FL. Zip: County: Hillsborough. Congressiona lDistrict: County Commission District: 1. House District: Precinct Group: 0. Precinct: Party: No Party Affiliation. Race: White, Not Hispanic. Voter Registration Monday, August 4, Voter Registration Monday, December 8, Voter Registration Friday, July 10, Bird was handcuffed to a gurney and taken to the hospital, where he kicked a light fixture, damaging it, and was threatening and combative to staff there.
He was booked on charges of driving under the influence, criminal mischief, and felony battery of a law enforcement officer, but was later released on bond. The drugs have been sent to a laboratory for testing and the results will be determinined within a few weeks. Porter, the sergeant who was on the receiving end of Bird's blood, has secured a warrant to obtain a blood sample from Bird and will be able to find out whether Bird was afflicted with any communicable diseases, such as HIV or hepatitis, Montes said.
Bird attempted to claim his money on Thursday, according to Montes, but it's still being held in evidence in connection with the pending investigation of the drugs found in his car. She said they do not know why Bird was carrying so much cash. Bird does not have a prior criminal record, but his employer, TeamHealth, which contracts him to area hospitals as an anesthesiologist, told The Sun-Sentinel newspaper that his contract had been suspended and that he "was no longer welcome there.
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