A Florida pharmacist accused of creating fraudulent prescriptions for fictitious patients apparently had a very real person complete the identification portion of the transactions: herself. Williston Police say Tiffany Timmons used her own Florida driver’s license while obtaining controlled substances through prescriptions investigators say she created.
The investigation began on September 23 after the Loss Prevention Department at a Walgreens within Williston contacted police. The call concerned a pharmacist suspected of writing fraudulent prescriptions for oxycodone, prompting officers to begin investigating what had been happening at the pharmacy.
Police identified the pharmacist as Timmons and say she had created multiple fraudulent prescriptions under the names of fictitious patients to obtain controlled substances. There was one particularly problematic requirement for those transactions, however, because police say purchasing the controlled substances required a driver’s license to be scanned…