Pill scheme
Dr. Caesar Mark Capistrano, an oncologist, was the case’s lead defendant. He was charged with several counts of conspiracy to dispense hydrocodone and possession with intent to distribute hydrocodone or carisoprodol.
Evidence presented at three trials early this year indicated Capistrano and Noel “wrote prescriptions for hydrocodone, oxycodone, alprazolam, carisoprodol, zolpidem, phentermine, and promethazine with codeine, knowing the drugs would be diverted to the streets for illicit use,” the release said.
Clinic manager Shirley Ann Williams allegedly used recruiters to get community members and homeless shelters to pose as patients, who were each paid between $50 and $200 to get prescriptions. Recruiters then allegedly filled the prescriptions at complicit pharmacies before selling them on the streets. Pharmacies charged the recruiters between $200 and $800 for each prescription, according to evidence at trial.
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“’I’m giving you my baby,’” a parent once told Penny Schwinn, then a principal.
The Tennessee Department of Education Commissioner didn’t quite understand what she meant until Schwinn became a mother when she adopted her first child – something that shapes her decisions as a commissioner.
“’I love this baby, but I cannot give her what she deserves; I cannot give her what she needs, so I’m giving you my baby,’” the birth mother told Schwinn. “In that moment, becoming a new mom and hearing that responsibility… for the first time, it clicked for me like it never has before: parents give us their babies every single day, and there is a responsibility that we have in education to care for and nurture. There is a love that comes with that kind of work.
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April 8, 2021
JACKSON, Tenn. A local student is now the recipient of a prestigious scholarship.
Thursday, representatives from the U.S. Navy and Jackson City government, helped present Madison Academic senior Serenity Williams with one of the most prestigious ROTC scholarships in the country, worth $180,000.
Williams comes from a military family, and expressed excitement about the honor.
“Everything I’ve known was military. I’ve been on Fleet Week, I’ve been in the submarines, I’ve been in the ships, torpedoes. You name it, I was there,” Serenity Williams said.
The scholarship will pay for her tuition and expenses in the ROTC program at Florida A&M University.
Legislation requiring transgender students to compete in school sports according to their gender at birth easily passed the House and Senate before Tennessee Gov. Bill Lee signed the controversial bill into law more than a week ago.
But not all votes in the House were either for or against the legislation. Five House Democrats, including a West Tennessee legislator, voted “present not voting,” which is like abstaining from a vote.
State representative Johnny Shaw, D-Bolivar, said he remained neutral on the moral issue.
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During a March 26 – the day Lee signed the bill into law – meeting between Jackson-Madison County School System board members and the lawmakers who represent the school system, board member A.J. Massey asked Shaw why he didn’t vote on the legislation.