Thursday, December 25, 2025
    ADVT 
    National

    Nova Scotia Doctor Charged With Trafficking Oxycodone Pleads Not Guilty

    Darpan News Desk, 09 Jun, 2016 11:28 AM
      BRIDGEWATER, N.S. — A Nova Scotia doctor charged with drug trafficking after police accused her of prescribing 50,000 pills to a hospital patient who never received them has pleaded not guilty.
       
      Lawyer Stan MacDonald says he entered the pleas on behalf of his client Wednesday in Bridgewater provincial court.
       
      MacDonald says trial dates have been set for Feb. 21 to 28 and March 1 to 7.
       
      Bridgewater police have alleged 35-year-old Sarah Dawn Jones wrote the prescription for oxycodone and oxyneo pills over a one-year period.
       
      Jones worked at the Crossroads Family Practice in the Halifax suburb of Tantallon, but the province's College of Physicians and Surgeons has said she's under an interim suspension and has stopped practising.
       
      The College has said the matter was reported to police last August after a pharmacist reported unusual activity to the college's investigative branch.
       
      Jones is also accused of possession of narcotics for the purpose of trafficking, theft, breach of trust, drawing a document without authority and fraud.
      Prev Next

      MORE National ARTICLES

      Drones Reportedly Spotted Near Two Large B.C. Wildfires

      Drones Reportedly Spotted Near Two Large B.C. Wildfires
      Fire information officer Amanda Reynolds said the BC Wildfire Service received two reports of unmanned aerial vehicles near wildfires on Friday.

      Drones Reportedly Spotted Near Two Large B.C. Wildfires

      First Of Two Pregnant Walruses Gives Birth At Quebec City Aquarium

      First Of Two Pregnant Walruses Gives Birth At Quebec City Aquarium
      The aquarium says it's the first time in Canada a captive walrus has delivered a live full-term baby.

      First Of Two Pregnant Walruses Gives Birth At Quebec City Aquarium

      Newfoundland And Labrador Mulls $32,000 Pay Hike For Judges Amid Fiscal Crunch

      Newfoundland And Labrador Mulls $32,000 Pay Hike For Judges Amid Fiscal Crunch
      An independent tribunal has recommended increases totalling 14 per cent from 2013-14 to 2016-17, including accumulated retroactive pay of almost $1 million, a Justice spokesman confirms.

      Newfoundland And Labrador Mulls $32,000 Pay Hike For Judges Amid Fiscal Crunch

      P.E.I. Confederation Museum To Shut Down Permanently Due To Lack Of Interest

      P.E.I. Confederation Museum To Shut Down Permanently Due To Lack Of Interest
      Founders Hall in downtown Charlottetown opened in 2001 and explained Canada's inception, beginning with the Charlottetown Conference in 1864.

      P.E.I. Confederation Museum To Shut Down Permanently Due To Lack Of Interest

      Fort McMurray Evacuees Look For Normalcy On Mother's Day, Despite Fire

      Fort McMurray Evacuees Look For Normalcy On Mother's Day, Despite Fire
      While planning their Mother's Day celebrations, evacuees who fled the wildfire ravaging Fort McMurray, Alta., are looking for normalcy.

      Fort McMurray Evacuees Look For Normalcy On Mother's Day, Despite Fire

      Site C Protesters To Dismantle Camp Outside Vancouver BC Hydro Office

      Opponents of a major hydroelectric dam project in northern British Columbia are packing up a protest camp outside BC Hydro's Vancouver office.

      Site C Protesters To Dismantle Camp Outside Vancouver BC Hydro Office

      PrevNext