CRIMES
Gavin Meany, Twin Cities psychiatrist, gets more time
Gavin Meany Star Tribune Former Twin Cities psychiatrist who appealed term for raping patient gets more time at resentencing --Excerpt A onetime Twin Cities psychiatrist who won an appeal of his initial sentence for repeatedly sexually assaulting a patient in trauma therapy was given an even longer term the second time around. Gavin P. Meany, 41, was sentenced Wednesday by Dakota County District Judge Timothy McManus to a term of 12¾ years after pleading guilty to four counts of third-degree criminal sexual conduct. With credit for more than 20 months of incarceration, Meany is expected to serve slightly more than [...]
Franco Sicuro, Chesterfield Psychiatrist, pleaded guilty
Franco Sicuro PRESS RELEASE Chesterfield Psychiatrist Admits Conspiracy Linked to Health Care Fraud Tuesday, November 15, 2022 For Immediate Release U.S. Attorney's Office, Eastern District of Missouri ST. LOUIS – A psychiatrist from Chesterfield, Missouri on Tuesday pleaded guilty in front of U.S. District Judge Sarah E. Pitlyk to a felony conspiracy charge and admitted that Medicare, Medicaid and other insurers lost more than $3.8 million based on fraudulent reimbursement claims submitted by clinical laboratories that he owned. Dr. Franco Sicuro, 67, has also agreed to forfeit $3.1 million from various sources. Sicuro ran, owned, served as the medical director [...]
Thomas Wyatt, Chatsworth psychiatrist, plea deal
Thomas Wyatt WSVN Georgia doctor accused in late 1970s child rape case takes plea deal; victim speaks out --Excerpt SOUTHWEST MIAMI-DADE, FLA. (WSVN) - A Georgia psychiatrist has taken a plea deal in a decades-old case of sexual battery involving several children. Dr. Thomas Wyatt is set to receive 17 years of probation for two counts of sexual battery on a minor. Police arrested the 66-year-old in Southwest Miami-Dade in 2021. Gentry Fry was one of three victims who came forward to accuse Wyatt of molestation when he was just 8 years old... Excerpted from: Georgia doctor accused in late [...]
Rose Moi, Norway psychiatrist, arrested
Rose Moi Journal Online P92.2-M worth of shabu seized by BOC, PDEA, NAIA-IADITG from arriving passenger at NAIA 3 By Itchie G. Cabayan October 29, 2022 -- Excerpt ... Norwegian tourist Rose Alex Moi, 59, widow, special psychiatrist and with address at Sarbuvollveien 1363, Hovik, Norway, was arrested for carrying one luggage containing 8.340 kilos of white crystalline substance suspected to be shabu with an estimated street value of P56,712,000, when she arrived onboard an Emirates Flight EK 0334 from Dubai from Johannesburg, South Africa.
Marc Laruelle, Yonkers Psychiatrist, Pleads Guilty
Marc Laruelle Press Release Yonkers Doctor Pleads Guilty To Illegal Distribution Of More Than 100,000 Oxycodone Pills Wednesday, October 19, 2022 For Immediate Release U.S. Attorney's Office, Southern District of New York Damian Williams, the United States Attorney for the Southern District of New York, announced that MARC LARUELLE pled guilty to one count of distributing Oxycodone, among other narcotics, without a legitimate medical purpose while acting outside the usual course of professional practice. LARUELLE pled guilty before U.S. District Judge Denis L. Cote. U.S. Attorney Damian Williams said: “Marc Laruelle abused his medical license and violated the oath of [...]
Ramendra Kumar Singha, Bangladesh Psychiatrist, jailed
Ramendra Kumar Singha The Daily Star Crime & Justice Psychiatrist sent to jail on charges of raping patient Our Correspondent, Sylhet October 19, 2022 -- Excerpt The head of the psychiatry at Sylhet MAG Osmani Medical College Hospital was sent to jail on Monday on charges of raping a patient. Associate Professor Ramendra Kumar Singha was arrested at his private chamber at Labaid Diagnostic Centre in Sylhet city on Sunday night. A woman, who has been a patient of his since 2018, accused him of raping her and making false promises of marriage, said Ali Mahmud, officer-in-charge of Kotwali [...]
Pamela Buchbinder, NYC psychiatrist, sentenced
Pamela Buchbinder New York Post NYC psychiatrist sentenced in baby daddy’s sledgehammer attack —despite desperate attempt to withdraw plea By Elizabeth Rosner and Emily Crane October 11, 2022 -- Excerpt A Manhattan psychiatrist was sentenced to 11 years in prison Tuesday for her role in the grisly sledgehammer attack of her baby daddy nearly a decade ago. Pamela Buchbinder, 52, finally learned her fate in the sensational 2012 love-gone-wrong case — despite a last-ditch, unhinged effort to reverse her guilty plea. The disgraced psychiatrist admitted last month to being involved in the attempted murder scheme on her ex-lover and fellow [...]
Zinia Thomas, Missouri Psychiatrist, faces illegal drug charges
KMOV4 Local doctor known for giving medical marijuana cards could lose her license --Excerpt ST. LOUIS (KMOV) — A local doctor could lose her license because she is now facing discipline for doling out medical marijuana. Dr. Zinia Thomas is also facing criminal charges. We’ve met Dr. Thomas before. She’s a licensed psychiatrist in Missouri who runs several local businesses. But she also took her medical marijuana practice on the road and that could ultimately send her career up in smoke. In 2019, News 4 Investigates went undercover as Dr. Thomas took her Cannabis tour to a shop in [...]
Bernard Calamy, Parisian psychiatrist, sentenced
Bernard Calamy Google translation Midi Libre Montpellier: twelve years in prison for the former psychiatrist who raped girls in the Gard September 10, 2022 -- Excerpt Bernard Calamy, 84, retired in Sauve, was declared guilty by the jurors of Hérault on Friday, after his appeal trial, where he had been sentenced to 13 years in prison, was broken in Avignon. His denials and his wavering memory will not have been enough. The Assize Court of Hérault sentenced Friday, September 9 a former Parisian psychiatrist, having retired in the Cévennes, to twelve years of criminal imprisonment for the rapes committed [...]
Thomas Gratzer, Twin Cities psychiatrist, charged
Thomas Gratzer Alpha News Former MPD psychological evaluator charged with sexual assault of minor By Crime Watch MN September 7, 2022 -- Excerpt A Twin Cities psychiatrist who formerly served as a mental fitness evaluator for the Minneapolis Police Department has been charged with criminal sexual conduct involving a minor. Dr. Thomas Gabor Gratzer, 57, of Edina, is accused of repeatedly sexually assaulting a minor child who was known to him. The female victim, who is now an adult, told an investigator with the Edina Police Department that she’d been sexually assaulted multiple times by Gratzer starting [...]