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Former Pastor Sentenced For Passing Fake Prescriptions
November 18, 2010
A former Alabama pastor accused of passing fake prescriptions at a Century pharmacy has been sentenced
Bertha Y. Wright, 44, was sentenced Wednesday to 18 months community control on multiple drug-related charges for attempting to fill fake prescriptions at Century Pharmacy on Mayo Street in March, the pharmacist suspected that they were fraudulent. Julie Moran called the doctor that allegedly issued the prescriptions, Dr. David Smith in Jay, and determined they were indeed fraudulent, according to the Escambia County Sheriff’s Office incident report.
The first prescription was written for Phenergan and codeine. The second was for 180 methadone tablets, and the third was for 120 Soma tablets. All three were dated March 3, 2010. Deputy David Bashore contacted Dr. Smith by phone, and he advised that he last saw Wright in February and had written no new prescriptions for Wright.
Inside Wright’s purse, Bashore located an unlabeled prescription bottle containing methadone, a bottle with generic Lorcet and generic Soma mixed together, and a third bottle with methadone.
When deputies Michael Coburn and Tod Day searched Wright’s vehicle across the street from the pharmacy, they discovered a variety of medications — the sheriff’s office incident report lists about a dozen other medications by their identification numbers. The report identified 127 hydrocodone tablets and the muscle relaxer Carisoprodol. An ice-filled cooler in the vehicle also contained three bottles of an unknown substance, according to deputies. The vehicle and the medications were seized as evidence by the sheriff’s department.
Wright was reportedly a pastor at a Mt. Vernon, Alabama, church.
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“What is community control?”
“Community control is a form of intensive supervised house arrest in the community, including surveillance on weekends and holidays, administered by officers with limited caseloads. It is an individualized program in which the freedom of the offender is restricted within the community, home or non-institutional residential placement, and specified sanctions are imposed and enforced. As with probation, violation of any community control condition may result in revocation by the court and imposition of any sentence, which it might have imposed before placing the offender on community control supervision. Many of the offenders who are placed on community control are prison diversions.”
(per: http://www.dc.state.fl.us/pub/annual/9899/stats/stat_cs.html)
What is community control. Is that house arrest , community service. Our probation ,which she can get back into the swing of things. I bet she could preach “HELLFIRE AND BRIMSTONE ON SUNDAY” with all them drugs. She needs alot of pray from all of the church members and christian people . I myself would be afraid of God , to do such things and then get behind the pulpit..
Okay, I guess I am a little slow but exactly how do all these people get their hands on FAKE PRESCRIPTIONS? It amazes me how we are constantly seeing articles about people trying to obtain medication with false prescriptions, over and over. I know when I go to the doctor or take my son to the doctor, the prescriptions are printed out on a computer on special paper and signed by the doctor. Further, do people not realize that there is a computer data base that shows every narcotic and/or drug that is regulated by the DEA??? I mean seriously do you really want to risk everything for a few Soma, Lortab and some methadone??? Not me, I like my freedom too much.
It doesn’t really read like a drug addiction with so many diffeent drugs involved unless they were involved to pay for the one addiction. Me not know.
David hoping she becomes a better person
It’s sad to see what drug addictions can do to a person.I hope she gets the help she needs while doing her time.