{"id":455591,"date":"2026-06-01T15:17:07","date_gmt":"2026-06-01T15:17:07","guid":{"rendered":"https:\/\/www.newsbeep.com\/nz\/455591\/"},"modified":"2026-06-01T15:17:07","modified_gmt":"2026-06-01T15:17:07","slug":"medicine-delivery-driver-admits-stealing-ozempic-from-employer","status":"publish","type":"post","link":"https:\/\/www.newsbeep.com\/nz\/455591\/","title":{"rendered":"Medicine delivery driver admits stealing Ozempic from employer"},"content":{"rendered":"<p class=\"ssrcss-1q0x1qg-Paragraph e1jhz7w10\">A delivery driver has admitted stealing thousands of pounds worth of weight-loss drug Ozempic from the pharmaceutical wholesaler he worked for.<\/p>\n<p class=\"ssrcss-1q0x1qg-Paragraph e1jhz7w10\">Peter Daniel, 62, from Croydon, south London, pleaded guilty to stealing more than 30 boxes of the medication from Cencora Alliance Healthcare.<\/p>\n<p class=\"ssrcss-1q0x1qg-Paragraph e1jhz7w10\">Croydon Magistrates&#8217; Court heard Daniel was caught on CCTV after customers complained they were missing deliveries between 17 April and 5 May. Police searched Daniel&#8217;s home and found 34 boxes of Ozempic worth \u00a34,080 in his fridge.<\/p>\n<p class=\"ssrcss-1q0x1qg-Paragraph e1jhz7w10\">The court was told he did not steal the drug for &#8220;commercial gain&#8221; but used it to treat an unspecified eating disorder. He will be sentenced next month.<\/p>\n","protected":false},"excerpt":{"rendered":"A delivery driver has admitted stealing thousands of pounds worth of weight-loss drug Ozempic from the pharmaceutical wholesaler&hellip;\n","protected":false},"author":2,"featured_media":455592,"comment_status":"","ping_status":"","sticky":false,"template":"","format":"standard","meta":{"footnotes":""},"categories":[33],"tags":[134,524,111,139,69],"class_list":["post-455591","post","type-post","status-publish","format-standard","has-post-thumbnail","category-medication","tag-health","tag-medication","tag-new-zealand","tag-newzealand","tag-nz"],"_links":{"self":[{"href":"https:\/\/www.newsbeep.com\/nz\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/posts\/455591","targetHints":{"allow":["GET"]}}],"collection":[{"href":"https:\/\/www.newsbeep.com\/nz\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/posts"}],"about":[{"href":"https:\/\/www.newsbeep.com\/nz\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/types\/post"}],"author":[{"embeddable":true,"href":"https:\/\/www.newsbeep.com\/nz\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/users\/2"}],"replies":[{"embeddable":true,"href":"https:\/\/www.newsbeep.com\/nz\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/comments?post=455591"}],"version-history":[{"count":0,"href":"https:\/\/www.newsbeep.com\/nz\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/posts\/455591\/revisions"}],"wp:featuredmedia":[{"embeddable":true,"href":"https:\/\/www.newsbeep.com\/nz\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/media\/455592"}],"wp:attachment":[{"href":"https:\/\/www.newsbeep.com\/nz\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/media?parent=455591"}],"wp:term":[{"taxonomy":"category","embeddable":true,"href":"https:\/\/www.newsbeep.com\/nz\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/categories?post=455591"},{"taxonomy":"post_tag","embeddable":true,"href":"https:\/\/www.newsbeep.com\/nz\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/tags?post=455591"}],"curies":[{"name":"wp","href":"https:\/\/api.w.org\/{rel}","templated":true}]}}