Crime & Safety
Three Charged For Allegedly Passing Forged Prescriptions
Three men were caught at Pick 'n Save trying to fill prescriptions written from a stolen pad. If convicted, two of them face more than 20 years in prison.
Three men are facing charges after they were caught trying to pass forged prescriptions at the Greenfield .
Patrick M. Masarick, 27, of Muskego, was charged with one count of attempting to obtain a controlled substance by misrepresentation. Matthew R. Garcia, 25, of Milwaukee, is charged with one count of obtaining a controlled substance by misrepresentation and one count of possession with intent to deliver a controlled substance. And Jeffery Wilde, 22, of Cudahy, is charged with one count of obtaining a controlled substance by misrepresentation, one count of possession with intent to deliver a controlled substance and one count of possession of a narcotic drug.
If convicted, Masarick faces up to three years in prison, Garcia up to 21 and Wilde up to 24 ½.
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According to the criminal complaint:
On March 12, Greenfield police were called to Pick ‘n Save in the 4200 block of South 76th Street after a pharmacist was concerned a man was trying to pass a forged prescription for Oxycodone from a prescription pad stolen from an area health clinic. Police arrived and arrested Masarick.
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While an officer was walking toward the pharmacy, a store manager also alerted him to another man in the store who also had a suspicious prescription. The man was identified as Garcia, who was then arrested with the prescription in his back pocket.
Garcia then told officers he came to the store with Wilde, and pointed him out in the parking lot. Police searched Wilde and found nearly $800 and five prescription pills in his pockets.
Masarick told officers he was given the prescription from another man who couldn’t go to pharmacies and would give him a cut of the proceeds if he would fill it.
Garcia told police Wilde had driven him to the store to fill the fake prescription and had done it at least once before at a Milwaukee pharmacy.