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.
Investigators say Timmons used her own Florida driver’s license during the transactions involving the fraudulent prescriptions. By the time police finished investigating the case, the department says Timmons had accumulated 44 charges.
Police Find Several Grams of Drugs in Vehicle
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Investigators subsequently obtained a warrant to search Timmons’ vehicle, with officers receiving assistance from the Levy County Sheriff’s Office. Police say the search turned up approximately 52.5 grams of oxycodone along with two additional fraudulent prescriptions.
Williston Police described the amount of oxycodone recovered as consistent with trafficking. Despite the quantity investigators say they recovered, the department stated that it had no information at the time of its September 28 announcement indicating any of the pills had reached the Williston community.
Those findings added another dimension to an investigation that began with suspected fraudulent prescriptions only days earlier. Williston Police ultimately arrested Timmons and said she was being held at the Levy County Jail on 44 charges related to the case.
Jail Records Break Down All Charges
Levy County jail records obtained by Guessing Headlights provide the count-by-count breakdown absent from the police department’s announcement. The record lists 13 counts of passing a forged or altered instrument, 13 counts involving fraudulently obtaining a controlled substance, 13 counts involving fraudulent use or possession of another person’s identification without consent, two forgery counts, two counts of uttering a false instrument, and one count of trafficking in seven grams or more of oxycodone.
The jail record lists each charge as pending and attaches a $10,000 surety or cash bond to 43 of the 44 entries, while the oxycodone-trafficking charge is listed with no bond. Taken together, the individual amounts listed for those 43 charges total $430,000, although the record does not provide a separate overall bond figure.
Records list Timmons as having been booked at 1:34 a.m. on September 24, with Williston Police identified as the arresting agency and no release date listed. Police credited Walgreens Loss Prevention, Patrol/Detective Witt, Lt. Confessore, and the Levy County Sheriff’s Office for their work on the investigation, but perhaps the case’s most unusual detail remains unchanged: the patients may have been fictitious, but police say the driver’s license scanned during the transactions belonged to Timmons herself