Legally what would be the charge for stealing a prescription pad with intent but not actually forging them.?

Question

If personx steals a prescription pad from a doctors office as a past employee and has an intent to forge a prescription, fill it and then sell the controlled substance, what would be the legal charge if there is one? The stealing of the pad is actually the only thing (that I know of) that occurred. But there was intent as personx told another person what they were going to do and that person went to the medical practice and reported it. What should the medical practice do in this case?

Someone I care about very much is the one that stole the Rx pad. I will email dog lover's answer to her because I think that says it straight up and she needs to hear it. Its very sad to me that someone in my family would do this.

Answer 1

The only crime someone could be charged with for stealing the pad is simple theft.... Called petite theft in many states. It is a misdemeanor offense.

But, here is where it gets bad....

Fill out one of the sheets and that's forgery... Felony.

Attempt to pass it a forged script and that's uttering a forged instrument... Felony.

Obtain a script via fraud.... Theft and possession of a controlled substance.

And then you could get slammed with Trafficking, and the list goes on.

This is an insane crime that could net the person YEARS in jail time.

If it was bad enough, they could be charged Federally and that's HUGE........... decades in Federal Prison!

Answer 2

Dog Lover made one mistake with the statement, "The only crime someone could be charged with for stealing the pad is simple theft.... Called petite theft in many states. It is a misdemeanor offense."

There are states where theft/unauthorized possession of a blank prescription form is a felony, (Indiana and Illinois for example), and the person can be charged with one count per form (20 form prescription pad = 20 felony charges)

Answer 3

Intent is not an element of forgery, so the only charge would be larceny.

However, intent would come into the mix if you sold or gave the pads to someone who did forge them. You could be looking at being a party to the crime of obtaining a controlled substance. This would be difficult to defend, as there is no other pracatical use for the prescription pads.

Answer 4

EDIT: basically observed that that's approximately us of a regulation so forget approximately this. i think of you advise theft quite than theft. As somebody else has stated, theft is theft yet with use of tension. theft is the 'cheating appropriation of assets belonging to a distinctive with the objective of completely depriving...'. There ought to be an 'appropriation' that's usually as much as choosing up the item. although, in case you probably did no longer do this then it does no longer be theft. So its no longer theft or theft. it ought to be responsible of buglary decrease than section 9(a million)(a) of the theft Act 1968. it is somebody is responsible of an offence ' if he enters any construction or element of a construction as a trespasser and with reason to commit' theft. The case of R v Ryan (1996) exemplifies this element: a guy with the objective to thieve tries to in effective condition by using a small bathing room window. The resident hears a noise and is going to look into. He unearths Mr. Ryan caught interior the window and is asked no count if he has any fairy liquid! Mr. Ryan is chanced on responsible of housebreaking.

Answer 5

You could go to jail.

I worked for a group of dentists once. The one dentist was fired. He was caught stealing then forging prescirptions for himself. He was arrested. The ending of the story is very sad because he died before the trial.

Dont do it, or if you have a friend who's thinking of it, advise them not to do it! It will ruin your life and it's not worth it~

Answer 6

Blank Prescription Pad

Answer 7

1-forging a signature
2- impersonation of a medica figure
3- stealing
4- posession of a controlled substance
5- selling drus illigally

The medical practice may fire this person and press serious charges agains this person. We aren't talking about a misdemeanor here, something along the lines of a felony and crime court are totally it.