Crime & Safety
Medical Assistant For Nassau Doctor Forged Painkiller Prescriptions: Police
The woman was arrested Tuesday.
A medical assistant for a Hicksville doctor was arrested Tuesday after police say she forged prescriptions for painkillers over the course of six months.
According to authorities, Katarina Tountas, 34, of Farmingdale, used a computer to forge electronic prescriptions of Percocet, a form of Oxycodone, from August 2015 to February 2016.
An investigation revealed Tountas sent six different electronic prescriptions to a local pharmacy, police say.
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She was arrested in Farmingdale without incident. Tountas was charged with six counts of second-degree forgery. She was arraigned Wednesday at First District Court in Hempstead.
Bail was set at $1,000 and it was no posted. Tountas is set to appear in court Friday.
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