Sussex Woman Charged with Trying to Call in a Fake Prescription

A Sussex woman is facing felony drug charges after she allegedly called in fake prescriptions from a doctor’s office she used to work at as a nurse.

Andrea F. Weber, 39, was charged in Waukesha County Circuit Court Wednesday with one count of obtaining a controlled substance by fraud. If convicted, she faces up to six years in prison and $10,000 in fines.

According to the criminal complaint:

In September, Weber allegedly tried to call in a fraudulent prescription at a pharmacy at a Pick n’ Save in Waukesha, by posing as someone from a Milwaukee doctor’s office. After contacting the doctor, it was confirmed the call, which was for the sleeping aid Zolpidem, had not come from the office.

Investigators later interviewed the pharmacist who recognized Weber’s voice from previous prescriptions she had called in. Authorities also  interviewed the doctor who supposedly wrote the prescription, and he told them Weber had worked for him in the past as a registered nurse.

Weber was interviewed by officers in February and told them she had been in rehab for an addiction to Ambien, another sleeping pill, and had made up the name in order to try and obtain the prescription.