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The case was investigated by the multi-agency Unified Drug Enforcement Strike Team.
A former employee of an Ocala health care provider is suspected of using fake prescriptions to buy Percocet and oxycodone illegally.
Elizabeth Gilley, 31, of Ocala, was arrested Tuesday on 12 counts of obtaining prescription drugs by fraud and 12 counts of possessing drugs without a prescription.
The case was investigated by the multi-agency Unified Drug Enforcement Strike Team.
According to their arrest report, an Ocala police officer went to Medical Health Center, 1714 SW 17th St. in Ocala, in late July and was told that a prescription pad containing 50 blank prescriptions was missing. Around that time, several pharmacies reported a woman had been passing fake scripts. A Publix Supermarket, for example, had received several prescriptions and noticed the doctor’s signatures were different.
At Medical Health Center, the human resources manager told police the names on the fraudulent prescriptions had never been patients at their office and that the information may have been entered into their database without authorization. The doctor whose name was on the prescriptions told investigators he did not treat those people, nor did he sign the prescriptions or prescribe the medications for the fake patients.
At one Publix, a UDEST agent viewed video showing a woman filling prescriptions nine times, beginning in May and ending in July. Another Publix had video of the same woman filling fake prescriptions three times, starting in June and ending in July.
The agent was able to identify her as Gilley and learned that she is a former employee of Medical Health Center who had quit several months earlier.
Gilley, who was released from jail Wednesday on $4,800 bond, could not be reached for comment.