A University of Michigan Hospital and Health Centers employee is on leave Friday after university police launched an investigation into fraudulent prescriptions the man was accused of filling.
Courtesy of U-M Police
University of Michigan Police spokeswoman Diane Brown said a local pharmacy notified police Tuesday that a man was filling fraudulent prescriptions. Brown said preliminary review of the case shows the man may have been doing this since August.
“The employee has been put on leave during the investigation,” Brown said.
The investigation is in its early stages and no charges have been filed against the employee, Brown said. It’s not clear what position the man had at the hospital.
Brown did not immediately know the man’s age Friday afternoon. She said he was getting prescription drugs, but the exact type of the drugs was still under investigation.
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