Arkansas nurse charged with utilizing useless affected person’s title in try and buy a whole lot of oxycodone capsules
A nurse in Arkansas is going through felony expenses after allegedly utilizing a useless man’s title when making an attempt to buy oxycodone capsules at pharmacies.
Caitlin Carol Adams was charged with three counts of fraud or deceit to acquire a narcotic drug-forged prescription in reference to a number of drug purchases final month, in keeping with KAIT.
Adams is accused of utilizing a faux prescription to buy 120 oxycodone capsules at a pharmacy in Jonesboro, Arkansas, on Jan. 2, the outlet reported.
She claimed she labored at a nursing house and that the capsules have been for a affected person.
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Caitlin Carol Adams was charged with three counts of fraud or deceit to acquire a narcotic drug-forged prescription. (Craighead County Detention Middle)
Investigators stated Adams, who’s a licensed registered nurse in keeping with the Arkansas State Board of Nursing, used a bank card along with her title on it to purchase the capsules.
“After trying into the prescription, an worker of the pharmacy contacted the nursing house in query, they usually said that Caitlin Adams was fired on Jan. 1,” investigators stated within the affidavit, KAIT reported.
Adams returned to the identical pharmacy on Jan. 6 with one other prescription for 180 oxycodone capsules, in keeping with investigators.
Prescription bottle for Oxycodone capsules. (iStock)
The prescription was beneath a person’s title who was later decided to have been a affected person on the similar nursing house the place Adams beforehand labored, the affidavit stated.
The person whose title was on the prescription had additionally been useless since Dec. 30.
The pharmacy refused to fill the prescription for Adams.
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Bottles of prescription painkiller Oxycodone Hydrochloride, 30mg capsules, sit on a shelf at an area pharmacy, in Provo, Utah, on April 25, 2017. (REUTERS/George Frey/File Picture)
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Adams then went to a different pharmacy and bought 180 oxycodone capsules beneath the useless man’s title.
She was arrested on Jan. 24 and booked into the Craighead County Detention Middle. Adams was launched on a $25,000 bond awaiting arraignment on March 20.
Adams’ license is beneath investigation.
