patching...
Update: Want to be a blogger for Wauwatosa Patch? Email james.price@patch.com
Welcome back, Patch Blogger!

Prescription Drugs

Wednesday, January 23, 2013

DA: Tosa Pharmacist Sold Narcotics While on Bail in Brookfield Drug Fraud Case

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 …

Carl Spackler

10:53 am on Wednesday, January 23, 2013

Wow, what a dumb a$$ (can I say that here)   more ›

Sunday, June 12, 2011

High Behind the Wheel

Menomonee Falls man's second OWI comes after he's found slumped over on prescription drugs.

At 8:14 p.m. last Saturday, a 26-year-old Menomonee Falls man was arrested for operating a motor vehicle while intoxicated, second offense, after police responded to a call of a man slumped over the wheel of his car in a parking lot in the 12300 block of West North Avenue. When police arrived, Fire Department paramedics were already there, and they had awakened the man, who had been asleep with the engine running. The man was “completely out of it and was staring out the window with a blank stare,” a paramedic told police. The man had to be helped from his car and could not walk without stumbling, but officers and paramedics did not smell alcohol. He denied drinking or taking drugs and said he was just very tired, but he failed a sobriety …

Got a Hot Tip?