CAPE CORAL, Fla. A 47-year-old man was arrested for allegedly forging fake prescriptions, the Cape Coral Police Department said. John Dimaria, of 2801 S.W. 29th Court, is facing fraud and drug possession charges for using his children’s names to acquire prescription drugs to sell, police said. The pharmacist at the CVS at 1611 N.E. Pine [...]
The Ocoee Police Department arrested two individuals and discovered six prescription pads totaling 111 blank prescription forms in a home Wednesday. The discovery was the result of an investigation Ocoee PD launched after a local pharmacy notified police they’d been given a fraudulent prescription on Feb. 1, said Ocoee Police Sgt. Mark Olson. The investigation, [...]
MOUNT OLIVE – A woman’s attempt to use a fraudulent prescription ended with her in the county jail on a variety of charges, police said. At 1:03 p.m. on Tuesday, Officer Matthew Carlson responded to the CVS on Route 46 in the Budd Lake section of the township after police got a report that there [...]
WAYNESBORO, Pa. — A Sykesville, Md., woman is accused of attempting to fill a fraudulent prescription Monday at Rite Aid at 1513 E. Main St. in Waynesboro, the Washington Township (Pa.) Police Department said. Michelle R. Armagost, 36, was being held Tuesday at the Franklin County (Pa.) Jail on $50,000 bail, court records said. The [...]
SPARTA, MICH. - Three men from the Chicago area are in the Kent County jail awaiting charges for trying to obtain drugs on a fraudulent prescription. Thanks to an "alert and suspicious pharmacist," the suspects who walked into Sparta store on Friday, Feb. 10, weren't able to get hold of the drugs, according to the [...]
Suspect stole prescription scripts from Wayne doctor, said police Leija Murtis was arrested and charged with prescription drug fraud by Wayne police.(Photo: Courtesy of Wayne Police) Wayne police arrested and charged a Paterson woman with obtaining prescription drugs by fraud after stealing prescription slips from a Hamburg Turnpike doctor’s office, according to police records. Lejia [...]
Even though pharmacists are under increased scrutiny for filling prescriptions that may interact with each other and for preventing opioid abuse, many are catching problems before they arise. For example, a Walmart pharmacist recently uncovered a prescription fraud scheme. The pharmacist at a Walmart store in Fort Gratiot, MI, noticed that a patient tried to [...]
CLOSE NEPTUNE - A township woman is in jail after her arrest this week on charges of breaking into a physician’s office, stealing a prescription pad from him and forging prescriptions to obtain narcotic painkillers and anti-anxiety drugs from township pharmacies. Eileen D. Davenport, 37, of Corlies Avenue was arrested by township police on Tuesday and [...]
The administrator of Florida Hospital Oceanside in Ormond Beach was arrested this week on charges of prescription drug fraud. H. Perch was arrested Tuesday and charged with obtaining a controlled substance by fraud, trafficking between 14 to 28 grams of hydrocodone and concealing information to obtain prescription of a controlled substance, records show. Perch, 50, [...]
John Thomas Williams (Source: New Hanover Co Detention Center) James Edison Chandler (Source: NHCSO) NEW HANOVER COUNTY, NC (WECT) - A Carolina Beach man is facing multiple drug charges after allegedly using fraudulent prescriptions at several Wilmington pharmacies last year. John Thomas Williams, 63, was taken into custody by Carolina Beach police Tuesday on warrants from [...]