Police in Pinellas County, Florida arrested an X-ray technician last week accused of writing more than 100 fraudulent prescriptions in her own name. Jessica A. Rhodes was arrested on six counts each of obtaining a controlled substance by fraud and trafficking in hydrocodone.
Rhodes had been the subject of an investigation after receiving a tip from a pharmacist at a local Target. Police found that Rhodes had forged 121 prescriptions from April 8, 2009 to June 30, 2010. Rhodes then passed the prescriptions at pharmacies throughout Pinellas County.
One hundred of the forged prescriptions, which totaled about 3,765 pills, were for hydrocodone and oxycodone.
