Man Charged in Prescription Fraud at Tosa Pharmacy

A 24-year-old Milwaukee man has been charged with committing prescription drug fraud to obtain narcotics from a Wauwatosa pharmacy.

Jerome Quentin Brooks was charged April 3 in Milwaukee County Circuit Court with obtaining a controlled substance by fraud, a felony punishable by up to three years in prison.

According to the criminal complaint:

On March 13, Brooks presented a prescription for Oxycodone at the pharmacy counter in the Walgreens store at 2656 Wauwatosa Ave. that the technician found highly suspicious. The script was in someone else's name, who had written Brooks' name on the back along with a signature and driver's license number.

She quickly called the doctor's office and learned that no such prescription had been written. Then she called police.

Officers arrived while Brooks still sat in the waiting area, and he admitted he did not even know the person whose name was on the script but had been paid by someone else to fill it – someone whose name, he said, he did not know.

In Brooks' car, officers found another Oxycodone prescription slip that had been filled in the same fraudulent name in December at a CVS Pharmacy in Milwaukee.

Detectives visited the office of the doctor named on both scripts and learned that his name had been fraudulently used in more than 20 recent instances.

Brooks was also charged with bail-jumping when a criminal record check showed that he was in violation of two domestic violence restraining orders imposed in 2012, among the terms of which being that he commit no new crimes.