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RACINE — A Chicago man is facing 26 felony charges after reportedly forging prescriptions for hydrocodone for more than a year.
According to a criminal complaint:
Daniel P. Dinnocenzo, 47, of the 3600 block of South Wood Street, allegedly used the name “John Watt” 13 times between January 2015 and April 2016 to obtain hydrocodone from Walgreens, 819 N. Memorial Drive.
A Walgreens employee reportedly became suspicious on April 4 when Dinnocenzo brought in a prescription for 180 hydrocodone pills from a Dr. Laurie Kibins at Columbia St. Mary’s Hospital in Milwaukee. The same prescription had allegedly been filled 13 times since January 2015.
When police contacted the doctor, she told police that she did not have a patient under the name “John Watt,” that the prescriptions were fraudulent and her signature was forged.
Dinnocenzo reportedly showed a Wisconsin Department of Engineering I.D. when he would fill the prescription. A Walgreens in Franklin also reported a man using the same doctor to get a prescription filled using the name “John Thomas.”
Dinnocenzo was identified and arrested in connection to the Franklin incidents and is also suspected to be the same person involved in the Racine incidents.
Dinnocenzo, who was charged on Wednesday, faces 13 felony charges for uttering a forgery, 12 felony charges for obtaining a controlled substance by fraud and one felony count for attempting to obtain a controlled substance by fraud.
He is scheduled for a preliminary hearing at 8:30 a.m. Dec. 21 at the Racine County Law Enforcement Center, 717 Wisconsin Ave.