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Hospital Nurse Arrested for Prescription Fraud
    Oct 21, 2009

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A Bainbridge Memorial Hospital registered nurse has been arrested and charged with 10 counts of acquiring controlled substance by fraud.  Marjorie D Smith was arrested  by BPS Investigator Mark Esquivel.

Investigator Mark Esquivel was notified by Bainbridge Memorial and Manor Risk Manager Jan Bennett regarding a fraudulent prescription last Wednesday.  He reported that Wal-Mart Pharmacy had called Doctor Ovidiu Popa's office regarding their concern of the validity of a controlled substance prescription for her daughter Tiffany Smith.

Investigator Esquivel received a statement from Dr. Ovidiu Popa stating that neither Marjorie Smith nor her daughter Tiffany Smith had ever been patients of Dr. Popa.  Dr. Popa also stated he has never written a prescription for either of them and that the handwriting and the signature on the prescriptions were not his.

Inv. Esquivel viewed Wal-Mart surveillance video of Marjorie Smith dropping off the prescription and picking up the prescriptions at Wal-Mart.

Inv. Esquivel checked other Bainbridge pharmacies and learned that there had recently been 10 similar prescriptions filled and obtained by Marjorie Smith.  All 10 prescriptions were for Roxicet 5/325 which is an oxycodone, a Schedule II narcotic.  The dates of the prescriptions;
08/01/2009
08/23/2009
09/02/2009
09/10/2009
09/11/2009
09/18/2009
09/26/2009
10/02/2009
10/07/2009
10/12/2009

On Monday, Marjorie D Smith, 57, of 11987 Delwood Road, Camilla, Ga, was arrested at Bainbridge Memorial Hospital and transported to Bainbridge Public Safety where she was processed on 10 counts of Obtaining a Controlled Substance by Fraud. Smith was then transported to the Decatur County Jail.  Her daughter had no knowledge of the actions.





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