Venetia man charged with fraudulently obtaining opioid painkillers
A federal grand jury indicted a Peters Township man federal prosecutors accuse of illegally obtaining narcotic painkillers.
The U.S. attorney’s office for the Western District of Pennsylvania announced the indictment on Friday, saying 43-year-old Timothy Forester, who lives in the township’s Venetia area, had obtained hydrocodone and oxycodone through unspecified “misrepresentations, fraud and deception.”
“In addition, the indictment alleges that Forester placed generic drugs into empty bottles of name brand drugs and sold the drugs as if they were name brand drugs,” federal prosecutors claimed in a statement.
Forester is charged with fraudulently obtaining drugs and misbranding of drugs.
Further details of the allegations against Forester weren’t available on Saturday.