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Last updated on Friday, January 27, 2012
TERRE HAUTE, Ind. (WTHI) - A nurse practitioner and college instructor was arrested Tuesday for allegedly trying to pass off a fraudulent prescription at a Terre Haute pharmacy.
A pharmacist at the Walgreen's at 13 th Street and Wabash Avenue called police Tuesday afternoon when Amy Holbert, 40, tried to fill a prescription for Buprenorphine, a drug sometimes used to treat opiate addiction.
Police told the pharmacist that the prescription was fraudulent.
Holbert was arrested and faces a felony charge of prescription fraud.
Holbert works as an adjunct instructor at Indiana State University.
A university spokesman declined to comment on the matter Wednesday afternoon.
According to police records, investigators confiscated three bottles of Buprenorphine pills.
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