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Nicholas Sherman

IDAHO FALLS — A former Madison Memorial Hospital intern has pleaded guilty to forging stolen prescriptions from the hospital to get hydrocodone.

Nicholas Sherman, 29, pleaded guilty Tuesday in Bonneville County to three felony charges of obtaining a controlled substance by deception, misrepresentation, fraud or forgery. Although the prescriptions were stolen in Madison County the crime, forging and filling the prescriptions, happened in Bonneville County and Oklahoma.

As part of a plea agreement, prosecutors dismissed three additional forgery charges and six felony charges of burglary.

The state and Sherman’s defense attorney, Sean Bartholick, are free to argue Sherman’s sentence.

According to court records, Sherman was enrolled in the paramedic program at Brigham Young University-Idaho. While in the program, he interned at Madison Memorial Hospital in August to December 2015.

In January 2016, a physician at Madison Memorial Hospital received a call from a pharmacy in Oklahoma asking him to verify a prescription he appeared to have written.

The physician told the pharmacy he had not authorized the prescription, and it was likely fraudulent, court records show. Within hours, three other pharmacies contacted the hospital to verify prescriptions.

The physician then accessed an Idaho registry used to track written prescriptions and discovered multiple fraudulent prescriptions written for Sherman and his wife, Lexie.

Sherman wrote the fraudulent prescriptions during the time frame of his internship at Madison Memorial, court records show.

The three charges Sherman pleaded guilty to alleged he forged prescriptions for hydrocodone at the Ammon Albertsons and Walgreens.

An arrest warrant for Lexie Sherman was also issued out of Madison County. The warrant is for two felony counts of fraudulently obtaining a controlled substance.

Lexie Sherman currently faces four felonies in Bonneville County for her alleged involvement. She is due back in court later this month.

Nicholas Sherman is on felony probation in Oklahoma after he pleaded guilty to a felony charge of attempting to obtain a controlled or dangerous substance by fraud in Oklahoma City.

He received a three-year deferred sentence and was ordered to pay various fines and complete 40 hours of community service.

He is due back in court in Bonneville County in July for sentencing.