Daughter of ex-Hillsboro councilor arrested in alleged prescription drug scheme

[foolsgold]

The daughter of a former Hillsboro counselor accused of falsifying drug prescriptions also faces charges in the case.

Megan Nenice Andrews, 26, turned herself in to Hillsboro police on Oct. 15 and was booked into the Washington County Jail on charges of tampering with drug records, identity theft, forgery and possession of a controlled substance, said Lt. Michael Rouches, a police spokesman.

Her mother, Nenice Marie Andrews, 58, was arrested two days later on accusations of tampering with drug records and possession of a controlled substance. Both are accused of illegally obtaining prescriptions for acetaminophen with codeine, or Tylenol #3, and diazepam, also known as Valium, according to probable cause affidavit.

Nenice Andrews worked as a nurse practitioner at the Hillsboro Women's Clinic, where her daughter is the office manager and husband is an obstetrician and gynecologist. Andrews served two four-year terms on the Hillsboro City Council before leaving at the end of 2012 because of term-limit restrictions.

Megan Andrews was convicted of tampering with drug records and identity theft in Washington County in Dec. 2009 stemming from an arrest by Forest Grove police, court records show. She was sentenced to 18 months' probation.

An investigation began when a Fred Meyer pharmacist called a federal investigator about several prescriptions phoned in for Tylenol #3 for Megan Andrews by someone who claimed to be Nenice Andrews, the affidavit said. The pharmacist recognized Megan's voice as the person calling.

A Women's Clinic receptionist told the investigator that she discovered Megan Andrews had picked up and signed for Tylenol #3 prescriptions in the receptionist's name in April and May, the affidavit said.

Andrews admitted to picking up the prescription when confronted by the receptionist and said she was seeking drug treatment, according to court records.

Another nurse practitioner at the clinic showed the investigator records from Walgreens that showed she had prescribed Megan Andrews four prescriptions of Fiorina, a migraine medication, between Feb. 2012 and June 2012 and five prescriptions of diazepam between June 2012 and Feb. 2013, the affidavit said. The nurse said she didn't fill the medication and that she never authorized anyone at the women's clinic to sign her name for a prescription refill.

http://www.oregonlive.com/hillsboro/index.ssf/2013/10/daughter_of_ex-hillsboro_counc.html

 

[foolsgold]

A former Hillsboro city councilor falsified drug prescriptions to satisfy her addiction to Tylenol #3 and Valium, court documents say.

Nenice Marie Andrews, 58, was arrested Thursday, Oct. 17, after an investigation determined she used her position as a nurse practitioner at the Hillsboro Women's Clinic to obtain 17 prescriptions for herself in 2012 and 2013, according to a probable cause affidavit filed in Washington County Circuit Court.

Andrews served two four-year terms on the Hillsboro City Council before leaving at the end of 2012 because of term-limit restrictions.

Andrews was not immediately available for comment Friday. Her husband declined to comment on the arrest when contacted by The Oregonian.

A receptionist from the Women's Clinic, where Andrews worked with her husband and daughter, told investigators that the former Hillsboro official began asking her to pick up drugs in February 2012, according to the affidavit. Andrews would prescribe the drugs in the name of the receptionist, who would then fill the prescriptions at a local Fred Meyer and be reimbursed by Andrews for the co-pay, the affidavit said.

Andrews wrote eight prescriptions for acetaminophen with codeine #3, or Tylenol #3, and nine prescriptions for diazepam, also known as Valium, between April 2012 and March 2013, the affidavit said.

The receptionist told investigators that the prescriptions had no medical purpose other than to satisfy Andrews' addictions, the affidavit said.

During a conversation in August that was monitored by investigators, Andrews acknowledged that the receptionist had picked up prescriptions 14 times in more than a year, the affidavit said.

Andrews also advised the receptionist to get an attorney, to keep track of her expenses and that it would be taken care of "under the table," the affidavit said.

Andrews was booked into the Washington County Jail on charges of tampering with drug records and possession of a controlled substance. She has since been released.

Note: A previous version of this article misidentified Tylenol #3, which is prescription acetaminophen with codeine #3, as Tylenol.

 

[Mysterie]

its kind of sad that due to being addicted to valium this woman and her family suddenly lose their privacy, because she used to serve on a city council

its a pretty minor criminal charge and the amount she forged or whatever was only enough to supply the families addictions, this story doesnt really seem newsworthy at all tbh

 

[RTrain]

Tylenol 3s? Damn, get a real painkiller addiction if its going to get you in some shit like this. If you are going to be rung up for falsifying a schedule II might as well not be the weakest of them all.

editL Ok my mistake, I guess T3s are not sch II cause they have less than 90 mg of codeine per dose. T3 and vics are sch III.

 

[MemphisX3]

they did all that for tylenol 3s!?!? WOW!

 

[Captain.Heroin]

^ yeah. The things I do for ...

 

[phenethylo J]

they did all that for tylenol 3s!?!? WOW!

Yea lol if you are going through all that trouble and risking your freedom at least go for the hydromorphone or something.

codeine lol bitch was listening to too much little wayne

 

[omnipresenthuman]

Somehow I'm not even the little bit least surprised by seeing a story like this. Just another family dealing with some drug problems, big whoop. Doesn't even sound like they supplied, and they certainly didn't go for the big ticket items.

 

[Mariposa]

Keep it classy, Washington County.