Thursday, September 19, 2024

Missouri Dental Board takes interest in Dr. Joseph's hit-and-run case four years after prescription drug discipline


Cherokee County, Kansas District Court documents indicate the Missouri Dental Board has taken an interest in the felony charges facing Dr. John Joseph II, Joplin, in connection with the August 19, 2023 hit-and-run death of Gary LaTurner, 60, Galena.

Joseph is charged with leaving the scene of a fatal accident and contributing to a child's misconduct and encouraging him to commit a felony. The child in question, his son Rocco Joseph, who was 17 at the time of the hit-and-run, is also charged with leaving the scene of a fatal accident.

The District Court office e-mailed a copy of public documents in the Joseph case to the board Monday, according to the court docket.

The notation also included the information that a copy of the records was faxed to the Dental Board last week.

This is not the first time Joseph's conduct has come under the scrutiny of the Dental Board.

The board placed Joseph on probation for one year August 25, 2020 after investigating an August 13, 2019 complaint forwarded from the Missouri Bureau of Narcotics and Dangerous Drugs (BNDD) saying that Joseph "was allowing a friend after hours access to {his} clinic and logged-on computers. Prescriptions were forged and licensee was censured by BNDD in 2018.






The same thing occurred "a second time with a different friend," according to the Dental Board document.

"The BNDD cited violations which included inadequate controls to guard against the diversion of controlled drugs, refills overlapping too soon causing diversion and failure to notify the BNDD of forged or falsified records."



12 comments:

Anonymous said...

Fool me once, shame on...shame on you. Fool me—you can't get fooled again.'

Anonymous said...

You messed up the messed up quote, just saying

Anonymous said...

Such a scumbag.

Anonymous said...

Person JS noted in the disciplinary action died of a drug overdose and person RD, also known as Duke, you’ll see defending him in lots of Facebook posts and co runs a nursing facility with him. These are a bunch of drug addicts. If someone broke into your office and stole prescriptions illegally which got you in trouble, you wouldn’t think you wouldn’t continue to have them as a patient, friend…. Business partner…

Anonymous said...

https://www.gettyimages.com/detail/video/president-george-w-bush-delivers-his-famous-fool-me-once-news-footage/1271658781

Anonymous said...

Page 14 of Jun 27 1995 Issue of Joplin Globe in Joplin, Missouri
Is this the same guy

Anonymous said...

At the pool? I was wondering that also.

Ray Charles said...

I don't see anything here!

Anonymous said...

“Tell me with whom you associate, and I will tell you who you are.”

Anonymous said...

The indecent park incident was Dr. Richard Jospeh the orthodontist. A whole family of fugitives.

Anonymous said...

Is this the same Joseph who was caught in Cunningham park in the 1990’s?

Anonymous said...

No!