Hit and run leads to 2 arrests





A medical fraud case was brought to light by a hit and run accident in the hospital parking lot on New Year’s Eve.

According to a report filed at the Waynesboro Police Department, officers were dispatched to Burke Medical Center around 6:30 p.m. after a man in a light blue car hit a parked vehicle and drove away.

Officers suspected that the driver was the boyfriend of a patient who had been dropped off at the emergency room earlier that afternoon.

While reviewing that patient’s admission chart, hospital staff discovered that she had signed in as “Tina Grubbs” but signed out as “Shirley White,” her real name.

White, 33, had also received prescriptions for Percocet and Valium. Officers began calling other hospitals to warn them of the scam when they learned that White and her boyfriend Richard Paul Mitchell, 47, were seeking treatment at University Hospital.

They were both arrested there, and White was charged with obtaining dangerous drugs by fraudulent means.

Mitchell was charged with hit and run and driving under the influence of drugs.


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