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A Wagram woman was recently arrested in connection with multiple incidents of prescription fraud.
Dorothy Ellis McNeill, 68, is charged with four counts of obtaining a schedule II controlled substance by fraud and four counts of felony possession of a Schedule II controlled-substance.
She is accused of providing false information to Moore County health care providers to obtain four different prescriptions to Oxycodone, according to a news release from the Moore County Sheriff’s Office. McNeill allegedly obtained 480 dosage units of the drug, which is an opioid narcotic.
McNeill was placed in the Moore County Detention Center under a $7,500 unsecured bond. She is scheduled to appear in Moore County District Court on Feb. 14.
Local law enforcement agencies have been working to crack down of the spread of opioid painkillers, which Sheriff Neil Godfrey has described as an “epidemic” in the community.
More than 80 people have died of opioid overdose in Moore County since 1999, according to statistics provided by the Sheriff’s Office. Nearly 1,120 opioid-related arrests were made by Sheriff’s deputies between 2008 and 2015.