A man from Pickering, Ont., has been charged after two pharmacies in Northumberland County reported receiving fraudulent prescriptions for Oxycodone.
Northumberland OPP say the man dropped off a prescription for Oxycodone at two pharmacy locations and planned to pick up the prescriptions the following day.
On Tuesday, the Peterborough/Northumberland OPP Community Street Crime Units and frontline Northumberland OPP officers arrested the man.
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Joshua Bradbury, 31, of Pickering, has been charged with two counts of causing or attempting to use a forged document.
He was released and is scheduled to appear in court in Cobourg on Dec. 19.
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