From July 2011 through July 2014 a Lynwood physician allegedly prescribed narcotic prescriptions in large amounts and accepted cash payments for the transactions. The patients receiving the medication did not receive regular examinations and it is suspected that many of them did not have a medical need for the pills.…
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Woman Arrested for Alleged Psychedelic Mushroom Grow Operation
32-year-old Jerilee Hughes was arrested after the Northwest Narcotics Task Force searched her home and found glass jars with psilocybin mushroom spores and growing supplies, as well as a small bag of useable mushrooms. Police also procured small amounts of marijuana and methamphetamine as well as residue-coated paraphernalia. Hughes faces…
8 Year Old Boy Overdoses on his Parents’ Heroin
The parents of an 8 year old boy have been charged with child endangerment after their son survived an overdose of heroin last month, according to police. On January 11th the police responded to a call of a child not breathing at a home in a suburb of southwest Cleveland,…
15 Meat Factory Workers Charged With Food Stamp Fraud
As a result of a food stamp fraud program ran by three sheriffs in Butler county, Ohio, 15 employees of two meat distributing companies were indicted in September for charges of illegally trading food stamp benefits for cash and narcotics, while many more also potentially face penalties. The 15 employees…