Jan 7, 2016 2 min read

WAYNESBURG – A home health care worker from Carmichaels who fraudulently obtained prescription drugs in one of her patient’s names pleaded no contest Wednesday before Greene County Judge Lou Dayich.

Tony Lynn Yeager, 31, of 51 Cumberland Village, was sentenced under a plea agreement to 3 years in the county intermediate punishment program, the first 30 days of which will be spent under house arrest. She was fined $50.

Yeager called in a prescription for hydrocodone for a patient she visited Nov. 21, 2014, in Franklin Township. She then had the prescription filled at a local pharmacy. Seventy of the patient’s hydrocodone pills were missing.

Yeager pleaded no contest to acquisition by misrepresentation, forgery, theft and unlawful acts. A charge of theft was withdrawn. Yeager also pleaded no contest to a separate charge of theft in which she earlier had been placed in the accelerated rehabilitative disposition program.

Yeager was removed from the ARD program and given a sentence concurrent to that for fraudulently obtaining the prescription. In that case, Yeager was accused of stealing an iPad and two gift cards between Dec. 22 and 24, 2013, at the Pathways Group Home in Franklin Township.

In other business before the court, Mark A. Fox, 33, of Creston, Ohio, pleaded guilty to two counts each of possession and possession with intent to deliver a controlled substance.

Fox was sentenced to 21 to 42 months in prison and given credit for time served from April 24. He also was fined $100 and ordered to pay $210 in restitution to Cumberland Township police.

Fox sold Subutex pills to a confidential informant working with the Cumberland Township police. On July 8, 2014, he sold the informant four pills for $120 and on July 11, 2004, he sold the informant three pills for $90.