US INVESTIGATORS believe a pharmacist may have helped to crack a multi-state drug ring, after he received a call from a "Dr Barry Buls" requesting he dispense unusually high quantities of painkillers for a patient.
Having been warned about a fraudulent prescription drug group using the names of real out of state doctors to con pharmacists into dispensing medications, Donald Sherman from Ephrata, Pennsylvania, smelt something funny was going on when Dr Buls asked him to provide refills of scripts for promethazine with codeine, ibuprophen, benzonatate and relenza, for the patient, who had "recently moved" to the town.
After the initial call, Sherman made contact with the real Dr Buls in New York, who revealed his name had been used by fraudsters looking to access prescription drugs across the US in Apr, and Sherman's call was the second he'd received on Tue.
At 7pm that evening a women by the name of Rayel Fleming arrived at Sherman's pharmacy to collect the medications ordered by the fake doctor.
Fleming had no ID or health insurance card when police swooped.
She is currently being held in a local prison having failed to post the $200,000 bail.
Police have yet to confirm if the woman is part of the drug ring, or if she has been using a false name.
True story... no bull.
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