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To: Faith_j
I'd much rather be arrested for trying to obtain something that is legal rather than illegal myself.
93 posted on 01/29/2002 7:55:58 AM PST by marajade
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To: marajade
"I'd much rather be arrested for trying to obtain something that is legal rather than illegal myself."

Me, too. But based on what the article said, some questions arise for me. She reportedly "tried to fill a false prescription," and yet she was charged with "fraudulently obtaining a controlled substance." To me, this means the pharmacist actually handed her the drug, and that she was in possession of it at the time of her arrest. He would not have done this if he had first called the MD to confirm the legitimacy of the Rx. So how did she get caught? Under these conditions, the only way I can think of is that after she left, the pharmacist had an afterthought, took another look at the Rx, became suspicious, called the MD and confirmed his suspicion. If the Rx had been somebody else's, she would only have gotten caught if the patient's physical description did not fit her and that patient had then been contacted and fingered Noelle. But if the Rx named Noelle as the patient and the MD told the pharmacist he never wrote that Rx for her, that would mean that she either stole part or all of an Rx pad or illegally reproduced same and then forged the order and the MD's signature -- much more serious. I wonder which it is...

428 posted on 01/29/2002 9:59:31 AM PST by Bonaparte
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