Man allegedly forged prescription
By JEFF STITT
jstitt@yourmvi.com
The office of state Attorney General Josh Shapiro has issued a warrant for the arrest of a McKeesport man accused of using the credentials of a UPMC McKeesport doctor to obtain narcotic pain medicine from a Penn Hills pharmacy.
Charges of forgery, identity theft and prohibited acts- acquisition or obtaining of possession of a controlled substance by misrepresentation, fraud, forgery, deception or subterfuge were filed Monday at the McKeesport office of Magisterial District Judge Eugene F. Riazzi Jr. against Christopher B. Letner, 33, of Pirl Street.
Agent Erin Kabler wrote in an affidavit of probable cause that on Sept. 6, Dr. Fritz Lubin, an internal medicine doctor at UPMC McKeesport, utilized the online Suspicious Activity Report tool to submit a complaint that someone was forging his signature on prescriptions.
Lubin told Kabler that he filed the report after a Rite-Aid pharmacy in Penn Hills contacted him and informed him that on Sept. 1, Letner was at the store and had a prescription of 120 Roxicodone pills filled.
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