 White Plains, NY - The Westchester County District Attorney Janet DiFiore, Department of Public Safety Commissioner Tom Belfiore, New York State Department of Health Commissioner Richard F. Daines, M. D. and New York State Insurance Department Superintendent Eric R. Dinallo announced that Brianna Scheflen, 24, of Ossining Village, New York was arrested and charged with one count of Criminal Possession of a Controlled Substance and thirty five counts of Forgery.
Paul Tierney, 28, of Ossining Village, New York was arrested and charged with nine counts of Criminal Possession of a Controlled Substance.
Scheflen, a nursing student and former medical office aide at a doctor’s office at the Westchester Medical Center, stole prescription dispensing pads and forged the signatures of a number of physicians for the thirty five prescriptions.
Some of the forged prescriptions were either in Scheflen’s name or in the real or assumed names of accomplices.
The forged prescriptions were for pain killers such as percocet and vicoden.
Charges have been filed in four jurisdictions: Greenburgh, Elmsford, Sleepy Hollow and Ossining Village.
The Westchester County Department of Public Safety, New York State Department of Health, Bureau of Narcotics Enforcement and New York State Insurance Department Frauds Bureau were the investigating agencies.
Bail for Scheflen was set at $10,000. Bail for Tierney was set at $15,000.
Their next court dates will vary by jurisdiction.
They face a maximum of nine years in state prison on the “B” felonies.
Assistant District Attorney Christopher Shaw, of the Investigations Division, will prosecute the cases.
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