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On Friday July 14, the Brick Township Street Crimes Unit made a warranted search at a residence in Berkeley Township, police said.
Detectives were investigating Candace Colbert, 60, from Berkeley Township, who was suspected of stealing RX prescription blanks from a doctor’s office where she was employed in Brick Township, police said.
The investigation revealed that beginning in March 2022, Colbert forged and fraudulently passed 36 Rx scripts at pharmacies in Toms River, police said.
Colbert was charged with possession of crack cocaine, possession of heroin, intent to distribute crack cocaine, drug paraphernalia, tampering with evidence, obstructing administration of law, possession of prescription legend drugs, obtaining a controlled dangerous substance by fraud, forgery by writing, theft of movable property and practice of medicine by unlicensed person, police said.
Colbert was processed at Brick Police Headquarters and released on a summons.
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