Police believe a woman who tried to pick up a 9-year-old’s Adderall prescription at a Kroger pharmacy forged a doctor’s signature to obtain the drugs.
Emily K. Shoemaker, 33, is charged with obtaining drugs by fraud, York-Poquoson Sheriff’s Office spokesman Capt. Dennis Ivey said.
Deputies responded to the Kroger Pharmacy, located at 5007 Victory Boulevard, on July 11 for what a pharmacist believed was a forged prescription, Ivey said.
The pharmacist said a woman between the ages of 28 and 33 went through the pharmacy drive through around 7:30 p.m. the previous night, July 10, to pick up a prescription, Ivey said.
The woman said she was picking up a one-month supply of Adderall for a 9-year-old girl. The pharmacist informed the woman he would fill it the following morning.
The next morning while preparing the fill the prescription, the pharmacist noticed there was no Drug Enforcement Administration number associated with the doctor’s signature, Ivey said.
DEA registration numbers are assigned to health care providers and permit them to write prescriptions for controlled substances, according to the U.S. Department of Justice website.
The pharmacist then called the medical provider who wrote the prescription, who said it was forged, Ivey said.
Police identified the woman as Shoemaker after a sheriff’s office investigation, Ivey said. She was served with a summons by the Newport News Sheriff’s Office Aug. 23.
