Pharmacy Helps Make Drug Arrest

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Posted: 8:47 PM Jul 21, 2008
Last Updated: 8:47 PM Jul 21, 2008
Reporter: Lauren Keeling
Email Address: lauren.keeling@wtap.com

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A local pharmacy helped put a Marietta woman behind bars after she tried to pick up a phony prescription.

The Marietta Police Department and Major Crimes Task Force recieved information last week that 36-year-old Traci Schwendeman was posing as a nurse and phoning in false prescriptions in her name.

A local pharmacy confirmed they did have a prescription for Schwendeman for Vicodin written by a local doctor, who confirmed the prescription was not valid.

Marietta Police and Task Force Agents partnered with the pharmacy and after Schwendeman filled the prescription she was pulled over for a traffic stop.

Police found the pills under the floorboard of the vehicle and in her purse.

She is facing a felony charge of using deception to obtain a dangerous drug and a misdemeanor charge of possession of drugs.

She is currently out on bond.

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Posted by: Chuck Location: Marietta on Jul 23, 2008 at 06:02 AM
It concerns me when law enforcement cheers putting a person with an addiction behind bars. We've filled another cell with a person that needs treatment, not punishment. Does she need to pay her debt and make ammends to those she stole from? Yes. Will she learn that in prison? No. She will go back to feeding that narcotic craving when she gets out. Wake up people. It's not the drug. If you can't get heroin, you will forge scripts for Vicodin, or Pharmacy hop for legal prescriptions, drink alcohol, buy meds on the Internet, etc, etc. If every illegal drug was off the streets tomorrow, you have not solved one single addiction....

Posted by: john Location: marietta on Jul 22, 2008 at 05:08 PM
when are people going to realize the big drug problem in marietta. they need to start giving harsher penalties for users. prescription drugs, herion, and cocaine are every where in this town. a person can't go out anywhere without getting asked about buying something. the police are trying to get to the source instead of taking the small person off the street and giving them a stiff sentence. enough is enough on the drugs.. county commisioners need to give the sheriffs office the money that is theirs and let them clean the streets up.