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EXCLUSIVE: The fall has been long and hard for former Palisades Park auxiliary officer Laurie Calvert, who went from wearing a wire to help prosecutors bring down a ring of rogue cops to being arrested once more for prescripton fraud — this time by allegedly claiming they were for her dead father. READ MORE….
At a time when state officials have launched new programs to root out prescription fraud, Detective Geoffrey Cole began investigating Laurie S. Calvert, 55, of Palisades Park.
Calvert was arrested in 2000 after police said she posed as a doctor to obtain prescription medications for pain and anxiety in Fairview, Fort Lee, Hackensack, Palisades Park, and Teaneck.
This time, Cole said he found that she was filling prescriptions for the highly addictive painkiller Oxycodone, for Alprazaolam, which is the generic equivalent of Xanax and is used to treat depression, and Fentanyl pain-killing patches.
“She had some of the prescriptions with her when she was arrested,” Bogota Police Chief John C. Burke told CLIFFVIEW PILOT.
“We’re still calculating how many she had altogether,” the chief said late Friday.
Calvert faced the same charges more than a decade ago following an arrest in Fort Lee, records show.
Police in 2002 said they also found her illegally carrying a handgun. She was put on probation for two years.
Calvert remained held on $15,000 bail in the Bergen County Jail this morning, pending a Municipal Court date. She is charged with obtaining a controlled dangerous substance by fraud.
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