MEDIA
Arthur J. Gross
Newsday (New York) MD Charged in Scam By Shirley E. Perlman February 20, 1992 A Hicksville psychiatrist yesterday was charged with five counts of criminal sale of a prescription and one count of fifth-degree criminal sale of a controlled substance. Arthur J. Gross, 65, was arrested Tuesday at his office at 372 S. Oyster Bay Rd. after a three-month investigation by Nassau police, the district attorney's office and the Federal Drug Enforcement Agency. Gross, who entered a plea of not guilty, was arraigned on the charges yesterday in Hempstead before First District Court Judge Leonard Clarke, who set bail at [...]
E. Stuart Hendrickson
The Associated Press Psychiatrist Charged With Sending Racists Faxes Dateline: Pittsburgh February 19, 1992 A psychiatrist was accused of faxing 100 racist messages to people, including former Pittsburgh Steelers receiver Lynn Swann. E. Stuart Hendrickson, 51, of Murrysville, pleaded innocent Monday to 13 counts of ethnic intimidation and harassment by communication. He remained jailed Tuesday in lieu of $ 15,000 bond. Detectives said Hendrickson, who is white, admitted sending the messages, but said he was only joking. "When I found out this guy is a psychiatrist, I wondered what his patients had been told," said Swann, who got the faxes [...]
Paul Ernest Morentz
The San Francisco Chronicle Vacaville Prison Psychiatrist Had Drug Conviction Doctor is reprimanded for 1989 misdemeanor By Susan Sward July 11, 1991 The chief psychiatrist at the Vacaville state prison, where three drug-related inmate deaths were reported last week, has been reprimanded in connection with his 1989 guilty plea to a federal charge of dispensing drugs without prescriptions, The Chronicle has learned. The state Board of Medical Quality Assurance issued a decision effective last Saturday that Paul Ernest Morentz be given a letter of reprimand for dispensing prescription drugs without prescriptions to co-workers who were not his patients. The reprimand [...]
Taleb al-Abdulmohsen, psychiatrist, sentenced to life
Taleb al-Abdulmohsen Aljazeera German court opens trial of Saudi doctor for Christmas market attack November 10, 2025 A nine-year-old boy and five women were killed in the ramming attack in a busy market. A court in southeastern Germany is set to open the trial of a Saudi Arabian doctor who is suspected of carrying out a ramming attack last year. Taleb al-Abdulmohsen, a 51-year-old psychiatrist, will appear in court on Monday in the town of Magdeburg, accused of killing six people and wounding more than 300 when he drove a van into a busy Christmas market last December. The defendant [...]
Yang Jae-woong
https://www.chosun.com/english/kpop-culture-en/2025/10/21/46BJVDBM5BAEREGL3G3E26CGFY/ Attending Physician Arrested Over Patient's Death at Yang Jae-woong's Hospital Doctor charged with professional negligence; 11 suspects including hospital director investigated By OSEN Published 2025.10.21. 07:43 [OSEN=Choi Lee-jung Reporter] Dr. Yang Jae-woong (43), a psychiatrist and broadcaster, has seen the attending physician A at his hospital finally arrested in connection with a patient’s death. Yonhap News reported on the 20th that the Criminal Investigation Unit of the Gyeonggi Nambu Provincial Police Agency arrested Dr. A on charges including professional negligence resulting in death. Presiding Judge Yang Woo-chang of the Bucheon Branch of the Incheon District Court issued a bench [...]
Alexander Wills, Boise psychiatrist, arrested
Idaho Press Boise psychiatrist arrested, accused of sexually assaulting a patient --Excerpt A Boise doctor was arrested Tuesday on suspicion of committing forcible penetration with a foreign object against one of his patients. Alexander Wills, 45, was booked into the Ada County jail on the felony charge Tuesday evening, online arrest records show. He was arraigned Wednesday afternoon. Wills’ LinkedIn account lists him as the owner of/psychiatrist at PERMA Mental Health. The company’s LinkedIn page lists its mission as “to create the highest quality psychiatric mental health services for all by combining psychotherapy, psychedelics, and medication management … “ [...]
Lazaro Pomeraniec, Fairfield psychiatrist, arrested
CTPOST Patient recorded Fairfield doctor accused of sexually assaulting women in his office, police say --Excerpt FAIRFIELD — Police have charged a Fairfield psychiatrist already suspected of groping three patients in his Post Road office with two additional sexual assaults, one of which was captured on an audio recording made by the victim, according to an arrest warrant. The doctor, 75-year-old Lazaro Pomeraniec of Westport, who surrendered his license to practice medicine in July, was arrested Aug. 25 in connection with incidents that are alleged to have occurred March 5 and May 16, according to court records… According to [...]
Anissa Maroof, Potomac Psychiatrist, Sentenced
Anissa Maroof Press Release Bethesda Doctor Sentenced to Over a Year in Federal Prison for Unlawfully Distributing Controlled Substances Tuesday, August 26, 2025 For Immediate Release U.S. Attorney's Office, District of Maryland Defendant unlawfully distributed Xanax, Adderall, and Buprenorphine to patients Greenbelt, Maryland – U.S. District Court Judge Theodore D. Chuang sentenced Anissa Maroof, 48, of Potomac, Maryland, to 15 months in federal prison, followed by two years of supervised release, for distributing and dispensing controlled substances. After she is released from prison, Maroof will serve the first nine months of supervised release on home detention. Kelly O. Hayes, U.S. [...]
“MODERN” PSYCHOSURGERY
PsychSearch “MODERN” PSYCHOSURGERY Colin Taufer In 1949, Antonio Egas Moniz won the Nobel Prize for physiology and medicine. His award-winning contribution to mankind? “His discovery of the therapeutic value of leucotomy in certain psychoses. A leucotomy is more commonly known as a lobotomy, the neurosurgical procedure consisting of cutting or scraping away the connective tissue to and from the brain’s prefrontal cortex in the name of mental health. Or, in the words of psychiatrist Dr. Peter Breggin, it’s simply the disabling of the brain. The “ice pick lobotomy” was one of the most common psychiatric “therapies” of the late 1940’s [...]
21st Century Mental Asylums
PsychSearch Mental Asylums of the 21st Century: Prisons and Jails By Colin Taufer The three largest mental institutions in America are the Los Angeles County Jail, Rikers Island Correctional Institution in New York City and Cook County Jail in Chicago, the latter being the largest in the United States. This fact may come as a surprise to many. But to the men and women who work on the front lines of law enforcement and mental health care, this is the stark reality of the world they live in. They see first-hand the cycle of human destruction psychiatrists have created: [...]