Pharmacist

On Thursday, the day the Supreme Court upheld Obamacare, a 47-year-old Baltimore woman went to the drugstore, and pulled out her debit card to pay for a prescription refill. But she didn't have enough money in the account to cover the $425 charge. So she asked the pharmacist and staff for a favor. "I asked them to break up the prescription to give me one-third," says the woman, who would not allow her name to be published because she didn't want to disclose her medical conditions.

The Harford County Sheriff's Office continues to seek information in connection with an attempted armed robbery at the Darlington Pharmacy earlier this month. The Sheriff's Office released store surveillance photos of the robber on Monday morning. On Saturday, April 6, shortly after 1 p.m., a suspect described as a white man, 5 feet, 10 inches tall with a medium build, attempted to rob the Darlington Pharmacy on Main Street in Darlington. The robber displayed a knife during the robbery attempt and demanded prescription medications from the pharmacist; however, the pharmacist told him they did not have any and the robber did not persist, according to the Sheriff's Office.

Marvin Leonard Venick, a longtime Giant Food Inc. pharmacist and Northwest Baltimore resident, died of complications from Parkinson's disease Nov. 2 at Courtland Gardens Nursing and Rehabilitation Center. He was 76. Mr. Venick, the son of a Western Union telegrapher and homemaker, was born in Baltimore and raised on North Pulaski Street. He was a 1950 graduate of City College and earned his pharmacist's degree in 1955 from the University of Maryland School of Pharmacy. He served in the Navy as a pharmacist's mate in Norfolk, Va., until being discharged in 1957.

Howard County police have charged a man with holding up a pharmacist in Columbia with a syringe filled with blood that he claimed was tainted with the AIDS virus according to authorities. Police said the man got away with $27,000 worth of prescription drugs. The authorities said they confirmed the syringe contained blood and are testing it to determine if it indeed carried the virus. The suspect has been identified as Benjamin Frederick Blessing, 52, of the 5200 block of Golden Sky Court in Columbia.

BALTIMORE (AP) — A suburban Baltimore pharmacist has been sentenced to six years in prison for illegally selling tens of thousands of prescription painkiller pills. Forty-eight-year-old Ketankumar Patel of Eldersburg was also ordered at sentencing on Friday to forfeit $400,000. Authorities say Patel sold about 34,000 oxycodone pills to a drug dealer, who eventually worked as a DEA informant, between July 2007 and March 2009. They say Patel filled hundreds of phony prescriptions at his Reisterstown pharmacy and gave advice about how to forge prescriptions.

Henry P. "Doc" Zetlin, a pharmacist who later became a kosher events caterer at a Baltimore hotel, died Monday of multiple organ failure at Levindale Hebrew Geriatric Center and Hospital. He was 96. Born in Baltimore, he was the son of Jewish immigrants who fled the Russian pogroms, came to the city and settled at first on Gay Street. The family later moved to Auchentoroly Terrace. After graduating from City College in 1933, he earned a degree in 1938 from the University of Maryland School of Pharmacy.

A Reisterstown pharmacist was sentenced Friday to six years in federal prison for selling 34,000 prescription painkillers to a drug dealer, the U.S. attorney's office for Maryland announced. Ketankumar Arvind Patel, 48, was also ordered to forfeit the $400,000 he was paid for the pills, which contained the powerful opioid oxycodone. Court records say that Patel, who lives in Eldersburg, told the dealer how to write phony prescriptions for OxyContin and Percocet, then filled them from his Medicine Shoppe pharmacy in the 11800 block of Reisterstown Road between 2007 and 2009.

Vito "Doc" Tinelli Jr., a longtime Chestertown pharmacist, died Monday of an acute coronary embolism at the Chester River Hospital Center in Chestertown. He was 77. The son of a Bethlehem Steel Corp. steelworker and a homemaker, Mr. Tinelli was born in Baltimore and raised in Dundalk, where he graduated in 1952 from Dundalk High School. He attended Kansas State University and earned his pharmacy degree in 1960 from the University of Maryland School of Pharmacy. After graduating from Maryland, Mr. Tinelli moved to Chestertown, where he joined his brother-in-law, Alphonse Poklis, also a druggist, at the Chestertown Pharmacy.

Walter Hendin, a retired pharmacist and businessman, died of cancer Saturday at Hollywood Memorial Hospital in Florida. He was 70.Mr. Hendin lived on Bancroft Road in Baltimore County before retiring to Hollywood in the early 1970s.Services for Mr. Hendin were being held today at Sol Levinson & Bros. funeral establishment, 6010 Reisterstown Road.Mr. Hendin worked as a pharmacist for the old Read's drugstore chain before becoming co-owner with his brother of Hendin's Hollywood Fashions, a women's clothing store.

Charles Mindell, a Baltimore pharmacist and owner of a pioneering health food store, died of kidney disease Friday at Sinai Hospital in Baltimore. The Pikesville resident was 90. Born and raised in Baltimore, he graduated from Forest Park High School, where he was captain of the basketball team. Soon after graduating from the University of Maryland School of Pharmacy in 1937, Mr. Mindell opened his own store on East North Avenue. As a young pharmacist, he changed the spelling of his last name from Mindel to Mindell to distinguish himself from his cousin Charles Mindel, a prominent Baltimore attorney.

Henry P. "Doc" Zetlin, a pharmacist who later became a kosher events caterer at a Baltimore hotel, died Monday of multiple organ failure at Levindale Hebrew Geriatric Center and Hospital. He was 96. Born in Baltimore, he was the son of Jewish immigrants who fled the Russian pogroms, came to the city and settled at first on Gay Street. The family later moved to Auchentoroly Terrace. After graduating from City College in 1933, he earned a degree in 1938 from the University of Maryland School of Pharmacy.

It could be said that Sheila Song's choice of career as a geriatric pharmacist is in herblood. For it is the close relationship the Carney resident has long shared with her grandmother, Cheng Soon Song, now 89, who had a major role in Song's upbringing, and who led Song to see that there is both need and reward in working with the elderly. The Loch Raven High School graduate, Song, 25, recently earned her Doctorate of Pharmacy after completing an intensive four-year program at the University of Maryland School of Pharmacy in Baltimore.

Vito "Doc" Tinelli Jr., a longtime Chestertown pharmacist, died May 23 of an acute coronary embolism at the Chester River Hospital Center in Chestertown. He was 77. The son of a Bethlehem Steel Corp. steelworker and a homemaker, Mr. Tinelli was born in Baltimore and raised in Dundalk, where he graduated in 1952 from Dundalk High School. He attended Kansas State University and earned his pharmacy degree in 1960 from the University of Maryland School of Pharmacy. After graduating from Maryland, Mr. Tinelli moved to Chestertown, where he joined his brother-in-law, Alphonse Poklis, also a druggist, at the Chestertown Pharmacy.

Nia Alleyne is a critical cog in No. 2 Aberdeen's run to the state tournament as it goes for its first state title beginning with Thursday's semifinal vs. Largo at UMBC. Averaging 12 points, seven rebounds and four steals, the 5-foot-8 junior can play any forward or guard position. Alleyne, 17, is as strong in the classroom as she is on the court. Enrolled in Aberdeen's challenging Science and Mathematics Academy, she maintains a 3.4 GPA and plans to become a pharmacist. She plays Amateur Athletic Union basketball for the Baltimore Cougars and runs cross country and track for the Eagles.

When Ted Leo and the Pharmacists comes to Baltimore, the band usually performs at the Ottobar . They have performed there so often, some of the band members even know the bartenders by name. "Its one of my favorite places in the country to play," said Leo, who knows his venues; the band does on average 200 gigs a year. But on Tuesday, when the four-piece group swings by Baltimore, it won't be performing at the Charles Village hangout. Instead, they'll perform at the Gspot on the outskirts of Hampden.

A 56-year old Columbia man was indicted Wednesday on charges that he used his laptop to forge prescriptions for Xanax, then sold the pills, earning about $3,000 a month. Martin Edward Mullineaux, of the 8700 block Hayshed Lane, faces 15 counts of possession of a controlled substance with the intent to distribute and four charges of prescription forgery. According to charging documents, a Costco pharmacist who spotted a forged prescription followed a man from the store July 29 and wrote down his vehicle license plate number.

Howard County police have charged a man with holding up a pharmacist in Columbia with a syringe filled with blood that he claimed was tainted with the AIDS virus according to authorities. Police said the man got away with $27,000 worth of prescription drugs. The authorities said they confirmed the syringe contained blood and are testing it to determine if it indeed carried the virus. The suspect has been identified as Benjamin Frederick Blessing, 52, of the 5200 block of Golden Sky Court in Columbia.

Wesley Nathaniel Shelton, a retired pharmacist who had co-owned four drugstores, died July 26 of sarcoidosis and cardiovascular disease at his West Baltimore home. He was 75. Mr. Shelton, the son of a Bethlehem steelworker and a homemaker, was born in Blackstone, Va., and moved with his family to West Baltimore in the early 1940s. He was a 1951 graduate of Frederick Douglass High School and earned his pharmacy degree in 1955 from Howard University. Mr. Shelton served as an Army pharmacist from 1957 to 1959.