Crime & Safety
Woman Arrested for Fake Oxycontin Prescription in Rye Brook
Police say the 23-year-old Bronx woman tried to fill the same prescription at two pharmacies on Ridge Street.
A Bronx woman was arrested Monday after trying to fill a fake prescription for Oxycontin at two pharmacies in Rye Brook, according to police.
Keisha L. Murrell, 23, walked into the CVS at 253 S. Ridge St. and presented a prescription for the opiate painkiller written by a Poughkeepsie doctor. The prescription was written out to a male patient and Murrell presented the man's North Carolina driver's license, saying she was picking the medication up for him.
When the pharmacist called the doctor's office listed on the script, a person answered on a home telephone line and tried to impersonate the doctor.
The pharmacist became suspicious, declined to fill the prescription and dialed a neighboring pharmacy at 182 S. Ridge St., Lt. Eugene Matthews said.
The pharmacist also called Rye Brook police, and when an officer came by to take a report, the pharmacist heard back his counterpart from the neighboring CVS, who said Murrell was trying to fill the same script at that location, Matthews said.
Police arrest Murrell, of E. 183 St. in the Bronx, and charged her with second-degree possession of a fraudulent instrument, a felony. She was arraigned and sent to Westchester County Jail on $2,500 bail, where she remains pending her next court appearance.
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