Posted on Thursday, September 1st, 2016 at 11:41 am
Two years after he was arrested, 47-year-old Danville resident and family nurse practitioner Michael C. Wagner was cleared of charges of one count of forgery and one count of unlawful acquisition of a controlled substance. Both of the felonies were in relation to accusations that Wagner prescribed medication that he wasn’t licensed to prescribe and signed prescriptions with another medical representative’s name.
Wagner was supposed to be tried for the charges on Monday, August 22. However, in a hearing on Friday, August 12, Vermillion County State Attorney Randy Brinegar dropped the charges against Wagner. Michael C. Wagner was allowed to continue his nursing practice at Central Illinois Family Practice at 603 N. Logan Avenue in Danville under Dr. Dennis Silver, whose name Wagner was accused of forging.
The state filed the charges against Wagner in January 2014 after a two-year investigation by the United States Drug Enforcement Agency and the Vermilion Metropolitan Enforcement Group.
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