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COLDWATER — Coldwater doctor Christina Whitaker, 42, was charged with eight felony drug charges on a warrant sought after a Coldwater Police investigation.

Branch County District Court Judge Brent Weigle told her Friday morning in a video arraignment her bond would be $200,000 because of future charges.

“There will be a significant number of similar complaints,” said Coldwater Police Officer Jessica Elsaidi.

Arrested with Whitaker was Gretchen Alldredge, 41, also charged in the scheme to obtain Adderall for Whitaker, who is addicted to the drug, according to the complaint.

Elsaidi began her investigation following the arrest of Whitaker, after she obtained three pills of Vyvanse from an undercover informant in Hillsdale County. She was stopped in Branch County, and the drugs were located.

Elsaidi went to the Michigan Automated Prescription System to find prescriptions for Adderall that Whitaker had written to other patients.

The officer then went to Alldredge, who is on felony probation for possession of meth. The police report indicated that Alldredge admitted that she got the prescriptions for Whitaker. Whitaker paid her for them and gave Alldredge prescriptions for the painkiller Tramadol, Alldredge’s drug of choice, in return.

The drugs were obtained four times between August and October of 2016.

Alldredge is charged with four counts of delivery of the Adderall. Whitaker is charged with conspiracy to obtain the drug. The charges are seven-year felonies.

Both are charged with four counts of obtaining prescriptions by fraud, four year felonies.

Alldredge is being held under a $100,000 bond.

Preliminary proceedings are set for both April 4 and April 11.

In 2007, Dr. Whitaker pleaded guilty to obtaining Adderall by fraud. Then in court, she said she had been told to use Adderall in medical school to help with her patient rapport. She said she turned to it again in a residency program and after she came to Coldwater.

Adderall is a synthetic amphetamine.

In January 2015, Aldredge was charged with possession of meth, after items were found with residue on them in her South Centennial Road home when her name appeared on pseudoephedrine purchase logs and police went to her home to talk with her.

In April 2015, Alldredge was sentenced to 10 months jail and two years probation. A violation of probation is pending in Branch County Circuit Court.