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Jessica Cash, 29, of 327 Merwin Ave., Milford, was arrested this week and charged with two counts each of criminal impersonation, identity theft, illegally obtaining drugs, third-degree forgery and sixth-degree larceny. She was arraigned in Meriden Superior Court on Wednesday. A judge set bond at $5,000 and continued the case to Jan. 6.
On July 28, an officer responded to a local dental practice for a report of employee theft, according to an arrest warrant. Police met with the doctors that run practice. One of the doctors said Cash was hired on June 30 as an assistant. A patient recently reported cash and eye glasses missing from her purse, the warrant said. Another employee told a doctor at the practice they saw Cash carrying the purse to a back room, which is against company policy, the warrant noted.
A doctor placed a piece of paper and some change in a bank envelope and left the envelope in the storage area of employee who was on vacation, according to the warrant. The doctor told police he noticed Cash walk into the area saw her holding the bank envelope, the warrant said. When confronted, Cash dropped the envelope but denied any wrongdoing, the warrant continued. The doctor told police said she was fired on July 16.
On Aug. 4, a doctor reported to police that his prescription identification number was fraudulently used on July 7 for a prescription for a muscle relaxer, the warrant said. The fraudulent prescription was filled at a pharmacy in Cheshire, the warrant noted. The doctor determined his identification number was used 15 more times, starting on July 8 for either the muscle relaxer or Tylenol with codeine, the warrant said. The prescriptions were called in for various names and filled at pharmacies in Cheshire, Milford and West Haven, according to the warrant.
Security footage from a pharmacy in Cheshire showed a white Nissan picking up one of the prescriptions. Police went to Cash’s home and discovered a Nissan matching the description, the warrant said. After questioning by police, Cash admitted to being addicted to pain medication, the warrant noted.
According to the warrant, Cash told police while she was working at the Cheshire practice she noticed the doctors’ identification numbers and wrote them on a piece of paper “just in case.”
After she was fired, Cash realized she still had the paper and started calling in prescriptions, the warrant said. Cash told police she knew it was getting out of hand so she started a treatment program.