DUBOIS – A Brockway woman is accused of allegedly forging a prescription to obtain narcotics.
According to an affidavit of probable cause filed with District Judge Patrick Ford’s office June 25, Erica J. Johnson, 26, DuBois, is charged by the DuBois City police with criminal attempt to obtain possession of a controlled substance, acquiring a controlled substance by misrepresentation, forgery, and possession of drug paraphernalia.
According to the affidavit, on Jan.1, officers were called to Shankel’s Pharmacy in reference to a woman at the business with an altered prescription. Officers spoke to the employees who gave them the altered prescription for Oxycodone and pointed out the woman who had given them the prescription.
The woman, later identified as Johnson, allegedly admitted to police that she had changed the date on the prescription and allegedly told police that she had a drug problem for about a year and a half. Johnson also allegedly told police she had a spoon and syringes in her pants. She allegedly took them out and gave them to the officers.