Police say woman tried to refill prescription for dead person

FORT WALTON BEACH – When a pharmacist received a call to have a Lortab prescription refilled, he became suspicious and did some checking.

Sure enough, the person needing the prescription refilled had died in April.

The pharmacist called police.

They in turn arrested 29-year-old Aimee Nicole Stokes of Fort Walton Beach, who they say called the pharmacy at Winn-Dixie and pretended to be her mother, who had passed away earlier this year. The pharmacy staff say the caller said she’d lost her prescription bottle and asked them to look up her information. When their records indicated the woman had died, they called her doctor, who confirmed the death.

The pharmacist told the caller to come in and pick up the prescription. A Fort Walton Beach Police officer was waiting for her.

When he asked why she was trying to pick up a prescription for a dead person, Stokes said she didn’t know it was against the law and was trying to get the Lortab “in case someone got hurt,” the officer wrote in the arrest report.

She was charged with prescription fraud, a felony. Her court date is July 9.