By Sharyn L. Decker
Lewis County Sirens news reporter
The state has suspended a registered nurse whose clinics were raided as a Centralia police drug investigation led them to a former Napavine man allegedly running a drug ring from prison this summer and into at least three other counties.
In mid-June, search warrants were served in Tumwater and Aberdeen focusing on medical records and other documents. New Beginnings Wellness Centers was operated by a nurse practitioner named Sharol Chavez.
The state Department of Health yesterday announced charges against Chavez alleging sub-standard care in medical marijuana authorizations and prescriptions for narcotics without proper patient examinations. The state charges in some cases she was aware some of her prescriptions were supplying Oxycodone pills to the illegal marketplace.
The Centralia Police Department’s Anti-Crime Team efforts to quash illegal pain pill sales in Centralia took them to Forrest E. Amos who they believed was began heading up a drug trafficking organization from prison after his local conviction in January for possessing prescription drugs without authorization. Searches of Chavez’s medical clinics were conducted on June 17, involving law enforcement from Centralia and numerous other agencies.
Chavez has 20 days to request a hearing to contest the licensing charges. After the raids, Centralia Police Department St. Jim Shannon said federal authorities would be reviewing the documents seized to examine them for possible criminal charges.
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For background, read “Centralia police track illegal Oxycodone trade to prison inmate” from Tuesday June 18, 2013, here
Tags: By Sharyn L. Decker, news reporter
What ever happened with this issue.?Was this just another Centralia PD BS story and no charges filed. I cant find any charges against her nor a conviction. Alcohol kills about 88,000 people each year. Watching TV most of the drugs they advertise are just as dangerous as pain pills yet their not being attacked. If people want pain pills they should be avaliable to them. Acetimetphine in Tylenol is more dangerous than the auctual pain pill it self. What is always never mentioned is that pain pills kill when mixed with alcohol and other drugs. Wheres the outrage for the 88,000 yearly deaths from alcohol? Oh thats right big Gubmint doesent make any money on the pills. Ciggerettes kill hundreds of thousands yet there legal. The system is a joke and the public knows it.
That’s absurd. Doctors are required by law to document patient illnesses. If the undercover police went in and lied about being sick, then they are 100% responsible for being liars. The worst part of it is, they were lying in order to buy dope.
Who are the real criminals?
Sharol Chevez had full knowledge and police went in as patients to get marijuana and oxycodone prescriptions without anything but the cash in hand. She is fully responsible and has been making enormous amounts of money being a paper mill.
I am NOT a drug dealer! I was unaware ANY prescription medications I prescribed were being sold on the street. I had pain contracts with my patients and did the required drug tests…so what happened to innocent until proven guilty????? I was NOT a part of any drug ring and followed the law as best I could…..
Shes a drug dealer, shes a criminal. She belongs in prison
I understand needing to shut down illegal drug rings,but this should terrify anyone who is in chronic pain and rely on medicines to function normally. With all the restrictions imposed on docs and reviews of their files, soon they won’t be willing to prescribe on account of the risk. Its hard to understand for some but many of us rely on meds just to walk without pain,