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Forty-six prescription fraud-related charges were filed against a Huntingtown woman who allegedly called in false prescriptions to the Prince Frederick Walmart’s pharmacy from February 2016 to earlier this month using her doctor’s information.
Laura Golibart-Guy, 43, faces 46 charges of obtaining a prescription by fraud and obtaining a drug by fraud, online court records show.
Deputy Timothy Rzepkowski of the Calvert County Sheriff’s Office was dispatched to the Prince Frederick Walmart’s pharmacy around noon April 12 to investigate an alleged prescription fraud, according to charging documents. He met with pharmacist Constance Tazem, who said the pharmacy received a call from Dr. Saad Haque to fill a Motrin prescription for Golibart-Guy. Twenty minutes later, the pharmacy received a call from a woman claiming to be with Haque’s office, who called in an order for flexeril and tramadol.
Finding the second phone call strange, the pharmacy contacted Haque’s office directly and was told the doctor did not authorize the flexeril and tramadol. Tazem conducted her own investigation and observed 19 additional telephoned prescriptions for Golibart-Guy from Feb. 8, 2016, to April 12 of this year, the police report details. After being questioned about the additional telephoned prescriptions, Haque faxed a signed letter to the pharmacy stating these prescriptions were not written by him.
The telephoned prescriptions allegedly made by Golibart-Guy were for various opioids, including phenergan, compazine, celexa, Xanax, vistaril, seroquel, lomotil propranolol, klonopin and ambien, according to the court documents. On three separate dates the doctor’s office number listed on the telephoned prescriptions was the number to Calvert Middle School.
On April 13, Det. Megan Quinn responded to the Prince Frederick Walmart after receiving a call that Golibart-Guy was back at the pharmacy allegedly attempting to fill more prescriptions. Quinn and Rzepkowski made contact with Golibart-Guy outside the Walmart, at which time she voluntarily entered Quinn’s vehicle and gave a recorded statement, the documents state.
Golibart-Guy said she initially had an unrelated prescription given to her by her doctor, but began calling in her own prescriptions using his information and Drug Enforcement Agency number. She said she obtained this information from her initial prescription. According to the report, Golibart-Guy said she had been calling in monthly prescriptions for Xanax and klonopin to the Prince Frederick Walmart for eight months.
Golibart-Guy was issued a criminal summons April 15 and served four days later. She has no upcoming court dates listed online at this time.