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To: Bonaparte
Actually, she got a break of sorts. The police arrested her while she waited for the prescription to be filled...they could've waited until she received the drugs from the pharmacy and hit her with "intent to distribute a controlled substance charge." It happens to the children of non-politicians all the time.
478 posted on 01/29/2002 10:27:53 AM PST by Stone Mountain
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To: Stone Mountain
"...they could've waited until she received the drugs from the pharmacy..."

But she wasn't going to receive the drugs at that point. Because the pharmacist already knew the call-in was bogus. He would have had to knowingly fill the Rx and hand it to her as part of a police sting. It's one thing when cops use confiscated street drugs to run a sting, but it's another thing entirely when a pharmacist uses his own inventory this way. Ordinarily, those drugs can never leave his possession, unless they're given to a legitimate customer or returned to the distributor/manufacturer. In either case, there's required paperwork.

She was amazingly dumb here. Call-ins, even with a DEA number that checks out, are often called back. The pharmacist will look up the physician's office number from a phone book, rather than rely on a phone number given to him by the caller. There are just too many ways to get caught at this.

656 posted on 01/29/2002 2:46:38 PM PST by Bonaparte
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