MAN CHARGED WITH PRESCRIPTION FORGERY

Officers say Justin Edward Brooks took a prescription pad while at the emergency room at Carolinas Medical Center Lincoln.

By Jon Mayhew

An eastern Lincoln County man is jailed after authorities say he
took around 100 blank prescription forms from a doctor’s desk,
while the staff was distracted.

Officers say Justin Edward Brooks, 28, Thornwood Lane,
Stanley, was at the Emergency Room of Carolinas Medical
Center Feb. 20 when he took the prescriptions.

“He forged and passed prescriptions at two Denver pharmacies,
one for Vicodin and one for Oxycontin,” said Sheriff’s
Department public information officer Larry Seagle. “He then
returned to the store three days later, trying to pass more
prescriptions.”

A narcotics officer was in the pharmacy when Brooks returned
around 5pm on Feb. 23 and was taken into custody.

“The narcotics officer and a state probation officer took Brooks to
his home where they found about 50 of the blank missing
prescriptions,” said Seagle. “Later during the investigation, some
of the blank prescription forms were found hidden in a light
fixture in the hospital rest room.”

Brooks was charged with felony obtaining a controlled
substance by fraud or forgery; two felony counts of attempting to
obtain a controlled substance by fraud or forgery; and
misdemeanor charges of larceny; possession of stolen goods;
possession of a controlled substance; and two counts of failure
to appear.

Brooks is in the Harven A. Crouse Detention Center under a
$30,000 secured bond.

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