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Prescription Fraud

Saturday, December 1, 2012

Area Man Accused of Prescription Fraud

The man has also been arrested for allegedly stealing from churches in Holmdel and Red Bank.

A man accused of stealing presription blanks from a doctor to obtain prescription drugs from a Little Silver pharmacy was arrested by Freehold Police and now faces multiple fraud charges. Freehold Township Police arrested Robert Hanna, of Colts Neck, and charged him with theft, forgery and fraud, following multiple incidents that occurred last summer. Hanna, 44, faces a total of eight charges after he allegedly stole prescription blanks from a doctor and attempted to use them to obtain unauthorized drugs from the Freehold Borough CVS and Little Silver Walgreens. According to Hanna’s complaint warrant, on June 18, July 23, and Sept. 25, he forged the stolen prescription blanks and used them to obtain Adderall, a narcotic. On June 12, July …

Monday, September 17, 2012

Rumson Woman Indicted on Charges of CDS, Oxycodone Prescription Fraud

The following information was obtained directly from the Monmouth County Prosecutor's Office. It does not indicate a conviction.

A Rumson woman has been indicted on prescription drug forgery charges in connection with a May incident and arrest, according to the indictment signed by Acting Monmouth County Prosecutor Christopher Gramiccioni. Michelle Mitchell, 43, of 95 Waterman Ave., Rumson, “on or about” May 6, allegedly knowingly submitted a forged prescription blank to personnel at Walgreens Pharmacy, West Long Branch, for the purpose of obtaining oxycodone, a controlled dangerous substance, according to the indictment. Mitchell was charged with one count of uttering a forged instrument, or writing, “a prescription blank, which she knew to be forged,” to illegally obtain the oxycodone, a third degree crime, the indictment said. She is also charged with a second …

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