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Two charged with 'doctor shopping'
JOE SEELIG
Published: October 22, 2012
SEBRING - A man and woman were free Friday after their separate arrests after being accused of fraudulently obtaining prescription medicines.Published: October 22, 2012
Brenda F. Davenport, 59, of 5204 Lakewood Drive, Sebring, was booked Oct. 11 on charges of withholding information from a practitioner to obtain a controlled substance (doctor shopping), two counts; and five counts of fraud to obtain a controlled substance. She was free Friday on $7,000 bail.
According to the arrest report, between Aug. 22, 2011, and Sept. 19, 2011, Davenport visited doctors in Fort Lauderdale and Sebring. The doctors' names were redacted from the report, as was the type of medication.
When detectives visited two doctors, they each completed a pharmaceutical diversion affidavit, noting Davenport did not inform them she was a patient of another doctor during a 30-day period and obtained a controlled substance or a prescription for a controlled substance that was for the same therapeutic use.
Both doctors asserted they would not have authorized the prescriptions otherwise.
Brian "Spot" Christopher Smith, 45, of 4022 Thompson Ave., Sebring, was booked Oct. 11, on charges of withholding information from a practitioner to obtain a controlled substance, and three counts of obtaining a controlled substance by fraud.
According to Smith's warrant, between Jan. 24 and April 26, Smith visited a doctor in Coconut Creek on March 28 and obtained prescriptions for medications.
It was 27 days later that he visited a doctor in Sebring on April 24, and obtained prescriptions there.
Investigators spoke with the doctors, who also were not aware that Smith was the patient of another doctor, and signed the pharmaceutical diversion affidavit stating so.
jseelig@highlandstoday.com (863) 386-5834