INDIANAPOLIS Indianapolis Metropolitan Police Department task force officers, working with the Drug Enforcement Administrations Tactical Diversion Section and the Carmel Police Department, arrested a 34yearold nurse practitioner following an eightmonth investigation into alleged fraudulent prescriptions.

Detectives said the probe began earlier this year after several pharmacies reported concerns that the nurse was over-prescribing medications and submitting suspicious prescriptions. Investigators collected records from multiple pharmacies and conducted several interviews. From that evidence, detectives say the nurse not only over-prescribed medications, but also wrote fraudulent prescriptions and issued scripts under other nurse practitioners' identities.

On Oct. 23, IMPD detectives serv

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