CRIMES
Jacob McClean, South Florida Psychiatrist Arrested
Jacob McClean local10.com South Florida doctor arrested after dispensing meth to patients, DEA says Dr. Jacob McClean faces federal drug charges By Peter Burke - Local10.com Managing Editor, Neki Mohan - Anchor/Reporter June 17, 2019 -- Excerpt MIAMI - A South Florida doctor has been arrested on federal drug charges. Dr. Jacob McClean, 36, appeared in federal court Monday in Miami. The Pembroke Pines psychiatrist was arrested Friday by Drug Enforcement Administration agents. Federal authorities said McClean was illegally dispensing and using methamphetamine... Lambert said McClean was also writing prescriptions "for medications that are not medically necessary and are [...]
Robert Perez, Orange County Psychiatrist, sentenced
Robert Perez Orange County Register OC psychiatrist sentenced to prison for prescription drug sales scheme By Sean Emery June 17, 2019 -- Excerpt SANTA ANA — A Santa Ana-based psychiatrist who illegally gave out prescriptions for opioids and other drugs was sentenced Monday to 57 months in federal prison. Dr. Robert Tinoco Perez, 56, of Westminster, as part of a plea agreement admitted earlier this year to one count of conspiracy to distribute controlled substances... Guilford noted that Perez seemed to be focusing mainly on himself, rather than the wider impact of his actions. “Turn on the news at any [...]
Paul Fox, Danbury & NZ psychiatrist, Guilty of Sexual Assault
Paul Fox The New Zealand Herald Psychiatrist Paul Fox, who treated Adam Lanza and Waikato patients guilty of sexual assault --Excerpt An American psychiatrist who was employed by Waikato District Health Board after surrendering his licence in the US amid controversy over an affair with a young patient, has pleaded guilty to her sexual assault. Dr Paul Fox is facing 18 months in prison in his native country after pleading guilty in Danbury, Connecticut, to sexually assaulting the teenager in 2011. The 66-year-old is infamous for treating a teenaged Adam Lanza - who went on to fatally shoot 26 people [...]
Arthur Kranz, Hobe Sound Psychiatrist, Sentenced
Arthur Kranz Press Release South Florida Doctor Sentenced to Prison for Tax Evasion and Disability Fraud Tuesday, April 30, 2019 For Immediate Release Office of Public Affairs Evaded Paying Taxes on Over $1.6 Million in Income Earned While Claiming to be Disabled A South Florida doctor residing in Hobe Sound, Florida, was sentenced to 51 months in prison yesterday for tax evasion, wire fraud, and Social Security disability fraud, announced Principal Deputy Assistant Attorney General Richard E. Zuckerman of the Justice Department’s Tax Division and U.S. Attorney Ariana Fajardo Orshan for the Southern District of Florida. According to court documents [...]
Charles Noplis, Louisville Psychiatrist, Punched a woman at a bar
Courier Journal Kentucky board opens new investigation of psychiatrist with ‘anger management’ issues Editor’s note: This story has been updated to reflect that Dr. Charles Noplis II is a contract physician at Renew Recovery. Its website identified him as the medical director. A Louisville psychiatrist whose medical license was already on probation for punching a woman at a bar and punching a patient in his office has now pleaded guilty to battery of his wife. Dr. Charles Noplis II, who was featured in a Courier Journal story last year about addiction medicine, pleaded guilty Tuesday to battery in Dearborn [...]
Billy Lockhart, San Fran Psychiatrist, sentenced
Billy Lockhart Los Angeles Times Medical board revokes license of San Francisco doctor caught with child porn --Excerpt A San Francisco psychiatrist who pleaded guilty to possession of child pornography was stripped of his medical license this week. A federal judge last year sentenced Billy Lockhart to three years in prison, which he began serving in November, according to court records. Lockhart was a resident of UC San Francisco’s Department of Psychiatry when he was arrested in May 2017 as part of a San Francisco Police Department probe into online child pornography trading. Investigators found hundreds of videos and graphic [...]
Leon Fajerman, California psychiatrist, gets house arrest for sexual abuse
Leon Fajerman NBC San Diego South Bay Psychiatrist Guilty of Sexual Assault Avoids Jail Time By NBC 7 Staff January 18, 2019 -- Excerpt A South Bay psychiatrist who admitted to sexually abusing six female patients avoided a jail sentence Friday, shocking and angering his victims. Leon Fajerman at first denied allegations he sexually assaulted the women during counseling sessions, but later pleaded guilty in October to felony sexual contact with a patient and misdemeanor sexual battery. There were eight victims in all involved in incidents between October 2016 and July 2017. Letters to Judge Frank Devaney written by Fajerman's [...]
Stephen Greer, Oklahoma VA Hospital Psychiatrist, Sentenced
Stephen Greer PRESS RELEASE Tulsa Man Sentenced To 21 Months For Tampering With Witness Thursday, October 25, 2018 For Immediate Release U.S. Attorney's Office, Eastern District of Oklahoma VA Psychiatrist Inappropriately Involved With Patient MUSKOGEE, OKLAHOMA – The United States Attorney’s Office for the Eastern District of Oklahoma announced that Stephen Lester Greer, age 58, of Tulsa, Oklahoma, was sentenced to 21 months imprisonment and three years supervised release for Tampering With A Witness, Victim, Or Informant, in violation of Title 18, United States Code, Section 1512(b)(3). The charge arose from an investigation by the Department of Veterans Affairs - [...]
Kimberly Frank, Mequon Psychiatrist, “pleaded insanity”
FOX 6 Now Milwaukee 'It was just dropped, like it never happened:' Child psychiatrist still practicing after psychotic episode By Bryan Polcyn September 12, 2018 MEQUON — A Wisconsin psychiatrist pleaded insanity, and the court agreed, so how is she still practicing? ... In the spring of 2011, a mother took her three young children to a Naples, Florida beach, where a mentally unstable stranger mistook the children for her own. "The woman was yelling 'these are my kids. Jesus, these are my kids!'" said Ashli Minor, the mother of the three children. Minor lives in [...]
Riyaz Mazcuri, (Texas & Florida), psychiatrist, sentenced
Riyaz Mazcuri U.S. Department of Justice Press Release Houston Psychiatrist Sentenced to More Than 12 Years in Prison for Role in $155 Million Medicare Fraud Scheme Tuesday, September 4, 2018 For Immediate Release Office of Public Affairs A Houston psychiatrist was sentenced today to 150 months in prison for his role in a $155 million Medicare fraud scheme involving false and fraudulent claims for psychiatric services. Assistant Attorney General Brian A. Benczkowski of the Justice Department’s Criminal Division, U.S. Attorney Ryan K. Patrick of the Southern District of Texas, Special Agent in Charge Perrye K. Turner of the FBI’s Houston [...]