Woodbridge Woman Busted For Prescription Fraud: Police

STAFFORD, VA — A Woodbridge woman is being held without bond after trying to fraudulently buy narcotic prescription drugs Dec. 27 at the Giant pharmacy on 317 Worth Avenue, according to the Stafford County Sheriff's Office. Ana Patricia Juarez, 22, was charged with prescription fraud, possession of a controlled substance, forging and uttering and identity fraud.

Shortly after 2 p.m., police got a call from a pharmacist about a women trying to fill a prescription for Oxycodone. The suspicious pharmacist had called the doctor listed on the prescription slip and found the office was unfamiliar with the prescription.

The pharmacist also recognized the woman from two earlier pickups. She had a prescription for 90 hydrocodone pills on Dec. 18, and then another 90 pills on Dec. 20. The doctor said both prescriptions were frauds, so police were contacted.

Juarez admitted to police the prescription for Oxycodone was fake, and added she had committed prescription fraud in the past. Police searched her purse and found two empty Oxycodone bottles and two white pills that Juarez identified as the narcotic Percocet.

Photo: Stafford County Sheriff's Office