Published: June 17, 2009 11:19 pm      

UCO professor faces court date

EDMOND — A University of Central Oklahoma professor faces an upcoming court date in a forged prescription case, The Edmond Sun has learned.

Kelly Lee Moyers, 39, of Guthrie, an associate professor of management in the UCO College of Business Administration, is scheduled to appear at a July 16 preliminary hearing conference on a charge stemming from an attempt to obtain a controlled dangerous substance by a forged prescription, court records show.

When asked if UCO administration knew about the development or if disciplinary action was in the works for Moyers, UCO spokeswoman Adrienne Nobles said the university does not comment on personnel issues.

Citing privacy concerns allowed under state open records law, that information also was not provided in an open records request. Information was provided about Moyers’ annual salary, which is $79,570.20, and her hire date, which was Aug. 11, 2003.

A message left Tuesday at Moyers’ UCO office seeking comment was not returned.

Moyers formally was charged with one count of attempting to obtain a controlled dangerous substance by a forged prescription on May 12. Bond was set at $5,000, posted by Moyers on May 20. She pleaded not guilty that same day, according to Oklahoma County District Court records.

On April 2, a doctor received a call from the Wal-Mart Neighborhood Market, 1301 E. Second St., that Moyers had just attempted to pass a forged prescription, according to an Edmond Police Department report.

The doctor told police that Moyers was a patient of his, and that she had come to see him a few days earlier about back pain. He said he issued her a prescription for Vicoprofen, which was filled March 31 at Walgreens.

Police said the Wal-Mart pharmacist noticed that the prescription was a photo copy and that it already had been filled. Moyers reportedly said she did not want the prescription to be run through her insurance, and that she wanted to pay the full amount with cash.

Believing the prescription to be fraudulent, the pharmacist told Moyers he would not be able to fill it and that he would be notifying police.

During an interview with an Edmond detective, Moyers said she threw away her old prescription by accident, that she was in extreme pain and did not know what to do, according to court records. She then realized she had copied the original prescription when she was going through some of her paperwork, police said.

When the detective asked why she did not just call her doctor and explain what she had done and ask for another prescription, Moyers told police she didn’t know what to do and realized later that she should not have done that, according to an affidavit.



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