Short of money for prescriptions, a mother leaves her sick child behind and tells police she'd rather have his hospitalization or death on Walgreens' head and not hers.
WAUWATOSA, WI - The mother of a sick 4-year-old boy abandoned him at a Wauwatosa Walgreens store last Thursday when a pharmacist wouldn't fill her prescription due to lack of funds. The woman later told police she was frustrated with the system when her prescription payment card came up short and, according to the police report, said "she was not going to take (her child) home without the medication because she did not want to deal with him crying all night." "Furthermore," the report goes on, "she stated that if something worse were to happen" to her child, "like getting more sick or dying, it would not be on her hands but on Walgreens hands because they refused to provide her the medications." According to the police reports, the woman …
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Charged in November with 12 felonies in Brookfield case of prescription drug thefts, James Kobs is reported, arrested and charged with taking a new pharmacy job where he also handled narcotics.
A Wauwatosa pharmacist who was out on bail while charged with a dozen felony counts, 11 for illegally obtaining narcotics and one for theft, was back in jail last week after he was found dispensing drugs again at another pharmacy. James D. Kobs, 50, of Wauwatosa was charged Friday in Waukesha County Circuit Court with felony bail jumping, punishable by up to six years in prison. According to the criminal complaint and court records, Kobs was reported to police by a part-time pharmacy technician at Omni Pharmacy, a Milwaukee clinic, who said that Kobs had become upset with him over the billing of a customer and had assaulted him. The technician told police the customer had been paying cash for prescriptions even though she qualified for …
Nancy Hall
10:54 pm on Monday, May 13, 2013
This happened in Wauwatosa. The father was at 'Tosa West and came to pick the child up. It's all in the article. more ›