A 43-year old Venice woman was busted Friday for allegedly phoning in her own prescriptions to a local pharmacy…..
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Jenny McKinney’s been charged with criminal use of personal identification and 10-counts of fraud in obtaining medicinal drugs. Sarasota County Sheriff’s deputies got a call from a Walgreen’s pharmacy about some odd activity. The Herald-Tribune reports someone, who called themselves ‘Toni,’ started calling in prescriptions for Tramadol from the doctor’s office where Mckinney’s an IT specialist. It started with several 30-day, no refill precriptions. Then it went to 60-days with a refill. From January 2014 to this February, authorities say McKinney got over 1700 tablets of the pain killer.