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According to a criminal complaint filed Thursday, a pharmacist in Lock Haven last week contacted a narcotics agent in the Office of the Attorney General to inform him that Chealse Rachau, 26, had recently been filling prescriptions every one to two days at three pharmacies in the Lock Haven area.
The prescriptions came from a State College doctor’s office, which reportedly informed the agent that Rachau worked there but had not been given the prescriptions by the doctor. As a Certified Medical Assistant, Rachau had access to the office computer used to generate prescriptions, according to the complaint.
Rachau allegedly admitted in an interview with the agent that she created the prescriptions herself on the office computer and signed the doctor’s name. She reportedly said that after creating the prescription, she would delete the record of it from the computer.
The agent said a search of the Pennsylvania Prescription Monitoring database found Rachau filled 21 prescriptions for Percocet since mid-August.
Rachau was charged with one felony count of acquiring a controlled substance by misrepresentation and one misdemeanor count of procuring a drug by fraud.
She was arraigned before District Judge Carmine Prestia with bail set at $2,500. A preliminary hearing is scheduled for Feb. 8.