Thompson + Hanson, Tiny’s may be coming to JMH site
Posted in Uncategorized on March 30th, 2010 by George Boehme – Be the first to comment
West University Examiner - News
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| JMH expected to be changing hands. |
By STEVE MARK
The popular West University Place landmark, which ended operations as an area marketplace in 2007, is expected to be purchased this week by Thompson + Hanson Nursery.
JMH could become a combination of current Thompson + Hanson current ventures, including a café. There is also discussion of adding a nursery-themed component.
Thompson + Hanson currently operates a popular café/nursery business on West Alabama; the Tiny Boxwood’s restaurant adjacent to the nursery draws overflow crowds with its casual gourmet fare and patio dining.
Gregg Thompson of Thompson + Hanson, says upon completion of financial arrangements, he hopes to open doors at the JMH location within six months. Thompson is mulling over varied plans for the available 7,000 available square feet of the property. Texas Citizens Bank occupies a portion and has use of parking.
“It is certainly a landmark, and a great piece of property,” Thompson told The Examiner. “It has served the community for over 60 years, and it would be fun to have a business in there that would continue to serve the community in some capacity.”
Thompson is inclined to open a variation of his Tiny Boxwood’s theme. The current structure on Edloe would remain the same, he said.
We drove to Steamboat Springs for spring breakPosted in Uncategorized on March 21st, 2010 by George Boehme – Be the first to commentMy wife and I loved it the drive to Steamboat Springs for spring break. But my 12-year-old twins described the drive as “cruel and unusual punishment.” My five year-old car had only about 20K miles clocked before the trip. Now it has 23K. The West University Examiner has details about the local history of the West U doctor charged with pill pushing through her medical clinics in what’s both a local and federal probe.Posted in Uncategorized on March 20th, 2010 by George Boehme – Be the first to commenthttp://www.hcnonline.com/articles/2010/03/20/west_university_examiner/news/wu_doc_charged.txt West U doctor faces organized crime charges for drug clinic activity
The Examiner
A West University Place doctor is accused of functioning as a drug dealer through her medical clinics and now faces organized crime charges and an investigation involving Harris County and the federal Drug Enforcement Agency. Dr. Christina Joy Clardy, 60, who has lived in the 6600 block of Sewanee Street for 15 years, is one of four people charged in the case, which saw her clinics in Humble and northwest Houston shuttered this week. Harris County Fire investigators said Friday they uncovered the “pill mills” as part of an arson investigation after a Jan. 23 fire at the Humble location that they now believe might have been set as part of a “drug war” in retaliation for Clardy’s drug-dispensing activity. They said state statistics show Clardy is one of the top 10 pill prescribers in the state of Texas, doling out nearly 3 million high-powered painkillers, antidepressants and sleep aids last year alone and attracting customers from around the U.S. Investigators said they recovered evidence, including prescription pads and cash in the offices and at Clardy’s West U home. Various doctor evaluation sites list Clardy as an anesthesiologist and pain management expert, and several show an additional office location in Sugar Land. One describes her medical training at Meharry Medical School in Nashville, Tenn., from which she graduated in 1976, and indicates she did her residency in anesthesiology and general surgery at Baylor College of Medicine in Houston. On some of the sites, she lists her West University home as her office location. InstantNewsWestU also has a story on the West University Place resident charged with organized crime and pill pushing….Posted in Uncategorized on March 20th, 2010 by George Boehme – Be the first to commentWest U. Doctor Accused Of Prescription Drug DealingA doctor who lives in West University Place allegedly accepted $14,000 per month to sign pads of blank prescriptions that authorities say were used in a “pill clinic” drug-dealing operation, according to court documents. Dr. Christina Joy Clardy, who lives in a $1.6 million house in the 6600 block of Sewanee Avenue, now faces a felony charge of engaging in organized criminal activity along with three associates: Tawny Hughes, Brandon Harris and Wilfredo Duran. The group allegedly collaborated to sell prescriptions for drug “cocktails” to 171 patients who came from all across the nation, paying $80 in cash for written prescriptions. Authorities have now closed two clinics that Clardy operated, the Uptown Medical Clinic at 7231 F.M. 1960 in Humble, and the S&G Medical Clinic at 9110 Jones Road in Houston. Dustin Deutsch, an investigator with the Harris County Fire Marshall’s office, uncovered the scheme after a fire on Jan. 23 at the Uptown Medical Clinic. According to court documents, Deutsch became suspicious because “there were few contents in the clinic which was inconsistent.” For example, there were no patient files. The clinic’s hours of operations were abnormal, and Deutsch discovered the business hadn’t filed important paperwork like sale tax permits, licensing papers and more. He did find “doing business as” paperwork filed in December 2009. Deutsch investigated the business and the four suspects and learned that Clardy allegedly received $14,000 per month to sign the blank prescriptions. Hughes and Harris ran the day-to-day operations of the Uptown Medical Clinic. Court documents accuse Duran of seeing patients, diagnosing them and writing their prescriptions, although has never been licensed to practice medicine in Texas, the court records say. When Deutsch secured an arrest warrant for Hughes, “she admitted they were running a pill clinic where the primary goal was to sell prescriptions,” the court records say. Deutsch learned that the group had removed patient files from the clinic just before the fire on Jan. 23 on Clardy’s orders. “She had a feeling that someone from S&G Medical Clinic was going to do something bad to the Uptown Medical Clinic,” according to court documents. Eventually, the investigator did examine the medical records of patients who visited the Uptown Medical Clinic, which was only open for 11 days before the fire tipped off officials about the clinic’s dubious operations. Court documents say the medical records revealed the clinic had treated 171 patients, and about 95 percent were diagnosed with lumbar problems. Many received prescriptions for a combination of drugs including hydrocodone, soma and Xanax. Deutsch said in court documents the combination is “referred to on the streets as a ‘cocktail’” and it is commonly abused by drug users. According to the Texas Medical Board, Clardy graduated in 1976 from the Meharry Medical College in Nashville. She completed her residency at Baylor College of Medicine in 1981. Clardy has been licensed in Texas since 1983, and during that time the Texas Medical Board has not investigated her or issued board actions against her. She lists her specialty in the fields of anesthesiology and pain management. After officers served Clardy with an arrest warrant, “she admitted that she knew that the prescription forms that she signed for Uptown Medical Clinic were not used for medical purposes,” the records say. West University Place resident arrested for engaging in organized crime…Posted in Uncategorized on March 20th, 2010 by George Boehme – Be the first to comment2 clinics closed in prescription drug investigation Doctor accused of engaging in organized crime By CINDY HORSWELL
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