IOWA ( Iowa Capital Dispatch ) - Five years after an Iowa nurse was convicted of drug-related crimes, he has agreed to surrender his Controlled Substances Act registration to the Iowa Board of Pharmacy.

The disciplinary case is one of several in which the board has recently sanctioned Iowa-licensed pharmacists for criminal offenses, drug-dispensing errors and other violations.

State records indicate that in 2020, advanced registered nurse practitioner Robbie Robinson of Sioux City was criminally charged with 10 counts of obtaining a prescription drug by fraud.

He later pleaded guilty to one count of tampering with records, a charge that was tied to allegations that he wrote a prescription for Bactrim for his girlfriend; one count of fraudulent practices in the third degree, for allege

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