Nurse arrested for passing false prescriptions

SALEM, N.H. (FOX 25 / myfoxboston.com) - A nurse was arrested yesterday for passing false prescriptions in the names of her children.

Shelley Bergeron, 41, of Methuen, Mass. was arrested and charged with 27 counts of Controlled Drug Acts Prohibited, which is a felony.

Bergeron worked for a local doctor’s office and had allegedly been writing prescriptions without the doctor’s knowledge or consent. She had been writing them in her children’s names and the children of her husband’s ex wife’s names. She then passed them off at a CVS Pharmacy in Salem.

According to police, she had been prescribing herself for nine different drugs including Vicodin, Fioricet, Differia and Rubitussen AC.

Bergeron has been released on $50,000 bail. She is scheduled to be arraigned in Salem District Court on June 14.

The Administrative Prosecution Unit of the New Hampshire Attorney General’s Office that handles state nursing licensing is also involved in the investigation.

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