A woman indicted by the grand jury for six counts of obtaining a prescription by fraud last month was sentenced in DeKalb County Criminal Court on Monday, December 7
Under an agreement, 35 year old Brandi Lynn McPheron entered a guilty plea to two counts of obtaining drugs by fraud. She received a two year sentence in each case all suspended to supervised probation. The terms are to run consecutively with each other for a total sentence of four years.
McPheron is requesting judicial diversion probation and that the case be transferred to Missouri.
According to Smithville Police, McPheron signed for and picked up prescriptions for the schedule IV drug Tramadol on six occasions at Rite Aid Pharmacy from August 11 to October 24, 2014.
Each prescription was for 60, 50 milligrams.
Police said a pharmacy representative reported that on each occasion, someone had called Rite Aid purporting to be from Mercy Clinic Family Medicine in Holister, Missouri on behalf of Dr. William Zeller ordering a prescription for Kari Stevens.
Police were notified and arrested McPheron when she came to pick up the prescription on October 24, 2014.
According to Police, Dr. Zeller was contacted and denied having a patient by the name Kari Stevens and said that the clinic in Missouri had not phoned in any prescriptions
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