Four people have been charged following a 10-month, multi-county investigation of an alleged drug ring.
Mariyah Arrington, 25, of Clinton, Maryland; Tyrek Arrington, 23, of Clinton, Maryland; Marissa Wright, 25, of Clinton, Maryland; and Nijee Britton, 25, of Washington, D.C., have been charged with numerous offneses, including criminal conspiracy to commit identity theft, criminal conspiracy to commit forgery, and criminal conspiracy to commit possession of a controlled substance. Additionally, Arrington and Wright are face charges of acquisition or obtaining of possession of a controlled substance by misrepresentation, fraud, forgery, deception or subterfuge, according to the Bucks County District Attorney’s Office.
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The investigation was handled by the Bucks County Detectives Drug Strike Force, Bristol Township police, and Lower Providence Township police in Montgomery County.
The group used stolen identifying information from two Bucks County doctors between late August and September last year to write fraudulent prescriptions. Thirteen fraudulent prescriptions were filled at area pharmacies, authorities said.
Over the course of the fraudulent prescription ring, 300 Percocet tablets and 2400 milliliters of promethazine with codeine were obtained, authorities said.
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Bristol Township police began a probe into a prescription fraud incident on September 11, 2019. A traffic stop led to Tyrek Arrington, his sister Mariyah Arrington, and Britton being taken into custody, authorities said.
A search warrant was obtained and marijuana was located in a a clear plastic bag, a digital scale, rolling papers, and a grinder containing marijuana were also found. An empty prescription bottle of promethazine with codeine and three computer-generated prescriptions from a doctor were found, authorities said.
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“The investigation later determined that the group committed or attempted to commit additional prescription fraud at pharmacies throughout Bucks, Montgomery and Chester counties from Aug. 28 to Sept. 9.,” the district attorney’s office said in a press release.
Due to multi-county nature of the ring, the Montgomery County District Attorney’s Office and the Chester County District Attorney’s Office gave authorization to the Bucks County District Attorney’s Office to take the lead jurisdiction on the case.
“Felony drug crimes take many forms,” District Attorney Matt Weintraub said. “Here, multi jurisdictional law enforcement collaboration took down a ring of drug dealers acquiring prescription drugs by fraud. It was a great team effort, requires to stop this organization in its tracks.”
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Editor’s Note: All individuals arrested or charged with a crime are presumed innocent until proven guilty. The story was compiled using information from police and public court documents.
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