Falls Woman Charged After Passing Fake Prescriptions

A 32-year-old Menomonee Falls woman is facing charges after she allegedly passed fake prescriptions at a Waukesha pharmacy.

Tara L. Trepanier was charged in Waukesha County Circuit Court Friday with one count of obtaining a controlled substance by fraud and one count of felony bail jumping. If convicted, she faces up to 12 years in prison and $20,000 in fines.

According to the criminal complaint:

On July 8, Waukesha police were called to Waukesha Professional Pharmacy Center, 827 W. Moreland Blvd., after a pharmacist reported getting various fake prescriptions for Trepanier written for Oxycodone and Amphetamine-Dextro Amphetamine. Trepanier listed an address in Sussex on the prescriptions.

In September, police visted Trepanier at her Menomonee Falls home where she admitted passing the fake prescriptions, which she said she got from her cousin in Cedar Grove. She said the prescriptions have since been passed to various friends so they could also obtain prescription drugs.

Trepanier said she knew she was getting the pills via fraud, but her cousin has a strong opiate addiction and she needed pills in order to get better.

She will make her initial appearance in court Dec. 19.