DUBOIS – A Reynoldsville woman accused of filling prescriptions for her incarcerated father waived her right to a preliminary hearing during Centralized Court at District Judge Patrick Ford’s office.
Amber Nicole Meredith, 28, 114 E. Main St., Reynoldsville, is charged with acquire or obtain possession of a controlled substance by misrepresentation, 14 counts of procure for self/other drug by fraud and 14 counts of procure for self/other drug by concealment of fact. Her bail was set at $2,500, unsecured.
According to the affidavit of probable cause, police were contacted by Shankle’s Pharmacy regarding a client having filled prescriptions for her father who was incarcerated at the time. Employees said Meredith was in the store on Aug. 1 with a prescription for Percocet for her father, David Meredith.
This prescription along with 14 other monthly prescriptions were filled and signed for by Amber Meredith. Several weeks later they learned that he had possibly been incarcerated for a probation violation.
They were later able to confirm he was arrested July 14 and placed in the Jefferson County Jail. He was then transferred to state prison on July 18.
When police spoke with Amber Meredith on Sept. 4, she admitted to picking up the prescription from the doctor without telling him that her father was in state prison. She also admitted to filling the prescriptions without telling them of her father’s status. She stated she knew her father was in prison at the time and the prison would not accept the medication.
She claimed she took the scripts home and locked them into a safe. When she checked on them on Sept. 3, she realized the safe along with the prescriptions had been stolen from her home.
There were 15 prescriptions filled at a total cost of $1,3094.94. These were paid for by Medicare.
