MOUNTVILLE, Pa. — Investigators with the Pennsylvania Attorney General's Office are seeking help in identifying a suspect accused of trying to pick up two fraudulent prescriptions at a Lancaster County pharmacy earlier this month.
According to authorities, the pictured suspect tried to pick up the prescriptions June 16, at Sloan's Pharmacy in Mountville.
The prescriptions, for the antibiotic Azithromycin and the antihistamine Promethazine with codeine, were electronically filed at the pharmacy and purportedly written by a doctor from Oklahoma City for a patient in Columbia, according to investigators.
Staff at the pharmacy confirmed that the Oklahoma City doctor listed in the electronic filing did not write the prescriptions, and investigators say they were unable to find any evidence that the patient named on the prescription actually exists.
On the same day the prescriptions were filed, the suspect came to the pharmacy to pick them up, but staff at the pharmacy informed him they would not fill them, investigators say.
The suspect then left the store and was seen entering the passenger side of a white sedan, possibly a Ford Fusion, bearing Pennsylvania registration that possibly included the last four digits "5431," according to investigators. There were at least two other occupants in the vehicle, witnesses reported.
Anyone with information on this or similar incidents is asked to contact Agent David Heffner with the Office of the Pennsylvania Attorney General at (717) 648-6419 or dheffner@attorneygeneral.gov. Callers can remain anonymous.
