CHP Officer Charged For Illegal Prescription Pad
FULLERTON, Calif. (AP) — A California Highway Patrol officer has been charged with illegally possessing a medical prescription pad used to write phony doctor's notes to get paid time off.
Orange County prosecutors say 46-year-old Deborah Therese Sparso of Anaheim Hills will be arraigned in Fullerton Friday on a charge of manufacturing, copying or reproducing false prescription blank forms. The misdemeanor could get her six months in jail.
A district attorney's statement says Sparso, a CHP officer in Westminster, used the notes to get more than $11,000 in paid time off.
Prosecutors didn't say how Sparso may have gotten the forms, but they say the doctor they came from did not authorize anyone to write the notes.
It's not clear whether Sparso has hired an attorney, and she could not be reached for comment.
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