crime
Man in fedora robs pharmacies
A man has been formally charged with the armed robbery of two pharmacies in Hobart, Tasmanian police say On Sunday afternoon, police responded to a report of a man entering …
Censured for faking codeine scripts
A New Zealand pharmacist has been censured after she created false codeine prescriptions and had them filled The New Zealand Health Practitioners’ Discliplinary Tribunal heard a charge of professional misconduct …
Woman dumps poo at Chemist Warehouse
A woman abused staff at a Chemist Warehouse and dumped a bag of human faeces on the pharmacy’s counter The Courier-Mail and Daily Mail report that a woman has faced …
Man caught after syringe robbery
A man has been charged after holding up a pharmacy with a blood-filled syringe The man allegedly went to the Blooms The Chemist pharmacy in Belmont, NSW, on Saturday 16 …
Murdered pharmacist remembered as ‘kind and loving’
A “wonderful” pharmacist has been shot dead in an apparent murder-suicide in Biloxi, Mississippi Local station WLOX is reporting that Daniel Day, the manager and owner of the Woolmarket Pharmacy, …
World news wrapup: 21 June 2018
Pharmacy worker stole to feed child; NZ study to examine script cost barrier to health; inadequate staffing becoming a “live issue” in the UK Middlesbrough, UK: A woman who had …
Caught in the act
They’re usually more likely to just steal from your fish and chips, but this seagull took theft a step further The Daily Mail Australia is reporting on the activities of …
Man caught with ‘bucketloads’ of drugs
He was supposed to be in Townsville to go to rehab – but a Goondiwindi man instead robbed a pharmacy, police allege Luke Phillip Jennings appeared in Townsville Magistrates Court …
Article claims ‘wave’ of pharmacist crimes
Crimes committed by pharmacists may be increasing, claims an article published in Fairfax media An article in the Sydney Morning Herald quotes director of NSW Health’s Pharmaceutical Regulatory Unit, Bruce …
World news wrapup: 24 May 2018
Pharmacist struck off after “crude” scheme in Ireland; hospital pharmacists strike in Malta; no national MAS for England Cork, Ireland: A pharmacist has had her registration cancelled by Ireland’s High …
Tributes for pharmacist murdered in the UK
A British pharmacist has faced court charged with the murder of his wife, also a pharmacist Jessica Patel was found with serious injuries in her home in Linthorpe and was …
Failure to report conviction lands pharmacist in hot water
A pharmacy manager has been forbidden to apply for re-registration for 18 months, and temporarily prohibited from working in any environment where he could access S8 or addictive drugs Sydney …