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Owner Of Animal Hospital In Avon Lake Indicted In Dead Dog Drug Scheme

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Status

Reported, not yet confirmed

Independent sources

2

First seen

Oct 8, 3:35 PM EDT

updated Oct 8, 11:33 PM EDT

Topic

Local News

Reported by WXIX (FOX19) and WKYC, not yet confirmed.

What Happened

An Avon Lake veterinarian and animal hospital owner has been indicted in an alleged scheme involving prescriptions written for a dead dog, WKYC and WXIX (FOX19) reported.

Written by our system from the sources below (2), version 1, Oct 8, 11:46 PM EDT. Official warnings are never rewritten: they are quoted as issued.

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How It Unfolded

Oct 8, 4:33 PM EDT · first source seenOct 8, 11:46 PM EDT · published

Official Confirmation

No official source confirms this yet. It is reported, not confirmed.

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How We Decided

Oct 8, 4:43 PM EDTHeld: One source so far, and no official source confirms it yet.Oct 8, 11:46 PM EDTPublished: Two or more independent sources reported it.NextConfirmed when an official source agrees.