Harry's in Snellville Helps Catch Woman Accused of Prescription Fraud

A Loganville woman was arrested last week on several drug charges rooting to prescription fraud. 

Gwinnett County Jail records indicate that 41-year-old Stacy Irene Mauro was charged Oct. 25 with 22 counts of obtaining dangerous drugs by fraud, one count of attempting to obtain controlled substances by fraud and one count of having a suspended/revoked license. Her bond was set at $68,666, and as of Tuesday afternoon (Oct. 29) she was still in jail. 

Police first were alerted about Mauro when she began cursing and harassing the pharmacist inside Harry's in Snellville when she was denied the pills. According to the Gwinnett County Police report, Mauro went into the pharmacy to try to get a monthly supply of 90 pills of clonazepam, a drug used to control and prevent seizures and treat panic attacks.

When the pharmacist put her information and prescription in the database, the system showed that Mauro had already picked up the drugs several times at different pharmacies for not only the month of October, but for September and August. The employee said it looked like she had made copies of her prescription, and records indicate that she visited 22 pharmacies in the Gwinnett and Walton county area from Aug. 2 to Oct. 10. She purchased up to 1,100 clonazepam pills in that time frame, the report says.

When police arrested her, she admitted to them that she had gone to about a dozen doctors in one month to get the prescriptions for the same condition. She said she was placed on clonazepam therapy due to her addiction to oxycodone, but she ended up abusing clonazepam, too. She was taking seven or eight pills a day instead of only a few, she added.

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