Crime & Safety
Pharmacist Admits Forging Scripts For 35,000 Oxycodone Tabs
Former pharmacist Eric Tingley admitted in court to illegally getting nearly 40,000 oxycodone and Xanax pills. He faces 20 years in prison.
HARTFORD, CT — A disgraced now-former Norwich pharmacist pleaded guilty in federal court Tuesday to illegally obtaining 35,000 oxycodone pills and 2,000 alprazolam (Xanax) tablets using forged prescriptions, prosecutors said.
Eric Tingley, 43, who now lives in Hopkinton, Rhode Island, admitted that from October of 2016 to July of 2017, while working in an unnamed pharmacy, he forged approximately 183 prescriptions for oxycodone and approximately 26 prescriptions for alprazolam. And he filled those forged prescriptions at the pharmacy where he worked.
Arrested in June of 2018, Tingley, previously of Lebanon, Connecticut, pleaded guilty to one count of possession with intent to distribute oxycodone and alprazolam. He faces up to two decades in federal prison. Out on a $50,000 bond, he's due back in court for sentencing January 9, 2020.
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