Back-to-back attempts were made by a man and a woman to have a pharmacist fill fraudulent prescriptions for narcotic drugs last week, according to Detective Sgt. Joseph Amodio.
By Lea Kahn, Staff Writer
Back-to-back attempts were made by a man and a woman to have a pharmacist fill fraudulent prescriptions for narcotic drugs last week, according to Detective Sgt. Joseph Amodio.
On Dec. 11 between 3 p.m. and 5:50 p.m. Dec. 11, a woman approached the Penlar Pharmacy on the Lawrenceville-Pennington Road and presented a prescription for narcotic pills from a Pennsylvania-based health care center and asked to have it filled, Sgt. Amodio said.
The pharmacist was suspicious and called for verification, Sgt. Amodio said. When he could not get confirmation, he told the woman to call back the next day.
On Dec. 12 at 10:15 a.m., a man handed a prescription to the pharmacist — signed by a physician — for 120 narcotic pills, Sgt. Amodio said. The pharmacist is familiar with the physician, and became suspicious because the signature on the form did not match the physician’s signature.
The pharmacist told the man that he was “out of pills” in question and that he should come back, Sgt. Amodio said.
In neither case, Sgt. Amodio stressed, were the prescriptions filled. The man and the woman left without the pills.

