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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 charged with two counts of burglary, one count of theft and four counts each of obtaining controlled dangerous substances by fraud, passing forged prescriptions and receiving stolen property, according to criminal complaints filed by police.
The burglary complaints allege that Davenport broke into the office of Dr. Jeffrey Beal on South Main Street in the Ocean Grove section on Jan. 19, when the office was closed. The complaints allege she stole a blank prescription pad from the office on that date.
Following the alleged burglary, Davenport is charged with forging a prescription for clonazepam, an anti-anxiety medication similar to Xanax, and passing it to a Rite Aid pharmacist on Monday to fill it, the complaints said.
The complaints list three other dates prior to the alleged burglary on which Davenport is accused of passing forged prescriptions, taken from Beal’s office without his permission, to obtain oxycodone, a narcotic painkiller. The complaints do not explain how she obtained those prescriptions prior to the January burglary.
Davenport is alleged to have fraudulently obtained oxycodone from the Park Warner Pharmacy on Sept. 20, Nov. 18, and Dec. 20, according to the complaints.
The complaints that charged Davenport with receiving stolen property allege that she was in possession of scripts she knew to be stolen after having removed them from Beal’s office without his consent and without being a patient of his.
Each count of burglary and obtaining controlled dangerous substances by fraud are third-degree crimes carrying potential prison terms up to five years. Passing forged prescriptions is a fourth-degree crime carrying a maximum punishment of 18 months in prison. The thefts and receiving stolen property are disorderly persons offenses.
Davenport is being held without bail at the Monmouth County Jail in Freehold, according to the jail’s website.