LAKEPORT, Calif. – Lakeport Police officers on Thursday arrested a Kelseyville man attempting to fill a stolen prescription at a local pharmacy.
Joshua William Moore, 22, was arrested Thursday afternoon, according to a report from the Lakeport Police Department.
At 2:30 p.m. Lakeport Police units were dispatched to North Lake Medical Pharmacy to investigate the report of a male subject attempting to obtain a narcotic by using a forged prescription stolen in Novato, police said.
Alert pharmacy staff quickly determined that the prescription was forged and stolen after the subject presented it to them in an effort to obtain 150 Oxycodone pills. They then notified police in an effort to catch the suspect, according to the police report.
Lakeport Police officers responded and conducted surveillance of the location in order to locate the subject, police said.
The police report said that at approximately 2:55 p.m. officers located Moore returning to the pharmacy and placed him under arrest for felony charges of use of a forged stolen prescription and attempted possession of a narcotic.
Moore was booked into the Lake County Jail, with bail set at $15,000. Jail records indicated he later posted bail and was released.
The police department commended the pharmacy staff for their diligent efforts in making sure Moore was unable to obtain the narcotics.