Jul 4, 2013 2 min read

WAYNESBURG – Charges were filed last week by state police against a New Stanton woman and her son, accused of fraudulently obtaining prescription medications.

Amber Kay Busch, 48, of 123 Stone Church Road, was charged with three counts of procuring or attempting to procure prescription drugs by fraud, deceit or misrepresentation; two counts of criminal solicitation to commit acquisition; and one count of criminal attempt to commit acquisition by misrepresentation, fraud, forgery or subterfuge.

Her son, Trenton Jared Shaw, 26, of 755 Bowlby Street, Waynesburg, was charged with three counts each of possession of a controlled substance and procuring or attempting to procure prescription drugs by fraud, deceit or misrepresentation.

In criminal complaints filed with District Judge Glen Bates, police allege Busch called in prescriptions for her son to the Rite Aid Pharmacy in Franklin Township May 21 for the drug Clonazepam and again June 11 for the drug Klonopin.

She also called in a prescription for her son June 11 to the CVS Pharmacy in Franklin Township for the drug Clonazepam.

For each of the phone-in prescriptions, Busch said the prescriptions were authorized by Dr. Ken Gibson of Delmont, according to the complaint.

A pharmacist who received the call-in prescription at the CVS Pharmacy contacted the doctor because of a discrepancy in the information and was told Gibson had not authorized the prescription and Shaw was not a patient of the doctor, the complaint said.

Police were contacted and Shaw was arrested after he picked up the prescription June 11 at the pharmacy.

Busch later admitted to police that she had called in the prescriptions for the drugs, which are used to treat anxiety, without the doctor’s permission.

Preliminary hearings for Busch and Shaw are scheduled for 9:30 a.m. Aug. 13 before Bates.