TUCSON – About 35,000 Arizona residents now carry state issued I.D. cards for the Medical Marijuana Program.
The News 4 Tucson Investigators went to find out how easy it is to get a card using one of our staffers who suffers from migraines. We went to a randomly selected medical marijuana certification center within Tucson city limits with a hidden camera.
“So tell me a little bit about what’s going on with your migraines and some of the pain and the reason why you want to get your card?” asks the doctor.
“Our staffer had made one phone call to set up the appointment. She brought her driver’s license but no medical records. After filling out paper work and waiting for about 25 minutes she met with a doctor and honestly described her medical condition.
“Yea I’ve always suffered from intense migraines. I don’t know if they’re stress related or what but they’re constant.”
The doctor responded. “I think you definitely have conditions that the state says goes through so we’re good.”
Our staffer was cleared by the doctor. Her medical marijuana application was sent off to the state and she was also given a list of medical marijuana clubs, where she was told she could get her medical marijuana. One week after her appointment she received her I.D. card.
The Investigators wondered if it was supposed to be that easy. We took our undercover investigation to Will Humble, Director of Arizona Department of Health Services.
“Apparently the physician has made, one minute into the appointment, has made a decision that this person has a qualifying medical condition,” says Humble after looking at the video.
He says this isn’t how it’s supposed to work. The first problem he cites is the lack of medical records
“The intent is to look at the last 12 months of medical records, to see what other physicians have done with that patient, what other medical management strategies the other physicians have used.”
Humble says another key requirement was missing in our visit. “A full inpatient physical exam that’s appropriate to that condition.” He explains it is up to the physician to determine what an appropriate exam is. In the appointment our staffer no exam was performed and her basic vital signs were not taken.
Humble says the program depends on doctors’ integrity and ethical responsibility.
“When they skip steps, and especially when they skip steps and attest to the fact they had done things they hadn’t done, it kind of ticks me off.”
Humble tells us this doctor did a very good job explaining different strains of marijuana but says the lack of an exam and medical records check could threaten the integrity of the program.
“If this was happening all across the state, with all of our patients, then we would probably end up with a recreational program despite all of our efforts to keep it this thing medical.”
Since seeing our investigation Director Humble says the Department of Health Services is looking into how doctors are qualifying patients.
LAFAYETTE, Ind. (WLFI) – After a local pastor is accused of hiding cameras in the ladies’ restroom at his church, we decided to find out just how easy it is to obtain discreet surveillance gear.
NewsChannel 18 first told you Monday that former pastor Robert Lyzenga was arrested last week on one charge of voyeurism.
He’s accused of planting cameras inside air fresheners in the women’s bathroom stalls.
So, we decided to dig a little deeper and ask, just how easy is it to get your hands on these hidden cameras?
We spoke with Lafayette Electronic Supply President Ron Hurst for a look at just what is out there on the market these days for hidden cameras and some of what he had to say about the size of modern cameras may surprise you.
Hurst said his business sees no legitimate reason to carry some of the smallest models of cameras that can easily be hidden in something like an air freshener, but that doesn’t stop the determined few from obtaining those online.
“You’re talking about something that has maybe a sixteenth of an inch diameter hole that it looks through. So in the context of walking in to a room you would never know it was there,” said Hurst.
The price tag on one of these small cameras runs the gamut from just $40 to upwards of $100 for the smaller technology.
Hurst said online you may be able to find just about any size camera you’d like as long as you’re willing to pay for it.
Tippecanoe County Sheriff Tracy Brown could not confirm if any more women from the congregation had come forward as victims after Monday’s broadcast.
The investigation is ongoing in this case. If charged, Lyzenga could face at least one D felony charge of voyeurism.
The Canadian military has evacuated staff from the Halifax naval intelligence facility where a sailor accused of espionage was working before his arrest.
The Department of National Defence said authorities are conducting a security sweep of HMCS Trinity to see whether this confidential communication centre has been compromised.
Sub-Lieutenant Jeffrey Paul Delisle was charged Jan. 16 under Canada’s Security of Information Act and faces the possibility of life in prison if convicted.
Experts are scanning Trinity, a naval communications and surveillance centre, for evidence of espionage or mechanisms designed to leak information to outsiders.
“The place is being investigated …. [for] software, hardware, bugs, the works,” a military official said.
Trinity staff have been temporarily moved a few kilometres away.
“As part of a normal and prudent business contingency plan, personnel belonging to elements of HMCS Trinity have been relocated to 12 Wing Shearwater for an undetermined period of time as a security precaution,” said Captain Karina Holder, spokeswoman for the Canadian Forces Provost Marshal, who commands the military police.
ANCHORAGE — U.S. Army officials could decide in February when to schedule a court hearing for an Alaska-based soldier charged with attempted espionage.
Army officials say 22-year-old Spc. William Colton Millay of Owensboro, Ky., transmitted national-defense information to someone he believed was a foreign-intelligence agent.
Officials have declined to say what country Millay believed the so-called agent represented. Millay, who faces life imprisonment, was observed during the espionage investigation and no damage occurred, officials said.
Millay, a military police officer, also is charged with communicating defense information, issuing false statements, failing to obey regulations and soliciting a fellow service member at Joint Base Elmendorf-Richardson in Anchorage to get classified material.
The Army’s equivalent of a preliminary hearing may be scheduled next month and could lead to a general court-martial, similar to a criminal trial in the civilian court system. But it’s too soon to know when the preliminary hearing actually will be held, Lt. Col. Bill Coppernoll said.
Liew attorney Thomas Nolan maintained in court that Liew had only possessed publicly available information.
“There is nothing at all illegal about that conduct,” Nolan said. “What is illegal is if he uses trade secrets.”
Liew paid at least two former DuPont engineers for assistance in designing chloride-route titanium dioxide, also known as TiO2, according to the indictment. DuPont is the world’s largest producer of the white pigment used to make a range of white-tinted products, including paper, paint and plastics.
The United States has identified industrial spying as a significant and growing threat to the nation’s prosperity. In a government report released last November, authorities cited China as “the world’s most active and persistent perpetrators of economic espionage.”
