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Drug Abuse

Tuesday, November 27, 2012

Update: Oklahoma Man Paid to Forge Doctor Signatures for Pills

Police said a man flew to the Moon Township area to obtain painkillers with fake prescriptions.

Update: A preliminary hearing scheduled for today has been continued to Dec. 18 in Coraopolis District Court.    An Oklahoma man obtained more than 800 prescribed painkiller pills after a scheme to forge prescriptions from Pittsburgh-area physicians, Moon Township Police said. Rolfe Jensen, 40, of Broken Arrow, OK, faces a preliminary hearing today in Coraopolis District Court on charges he was paid to pass fake prescriptions at area pharmacies, including one in Moon Township, to obtain the drug Lortab.  Police said Jensen flew from Oklahoma to the Moon area for the operation.  On Sept. 8, pharmacists at Super Kmart in Moon Township claimed a man named Terrance Walker attempted to pass a fraudulent prescription for the painkilling drug, …

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