Man found not guilty of drug charges
WAYNESBURG – A Waynesburg man who police said attempted to obtain prescription drugs through the use of fraudulent prescriptions was found not guilty Tuesday by a Greene County Court jury.
Trenton Jared Shaw, 27, of 755 Bowlby Street, was charged with possession of a controlled substance and procuring or attempting to procure prescription drugs by fraud, deceit or misrepresentation.
Shaw was arrested June 11 after police said he attempted to pick up a prescription for Clonazepam at the CVS Pharmacy in Franklin Township.
The prescription was called into the pharmacy by his mother, Amber Kay Busch, 38 of New Stanton, who also was charged.
According to the criminal complaint, Busch called in prescriptions for her son on May 21 to the Rite Aid Pharmacy in Franklin Township for the drug Clonazepam and again June 11 for the drug Klonopin.
She also called in a prescription for her son June 11 to the CVS Pharmacy in Franklin Township for the drug Clonazepam, police said.
For each of the phone-in prescriptions, Busch said the prescriptions were authorized by Dr. Ken Gibson of Delmont, the complaint said.
A pharmacist who received the call-in prescription at the CVS Pharmacy contacted the doctor because of a discrepancy in the information and was told Gibson had not authorized the prescription and Shaw was not a patient of the doctor, the complaint said.
Police were contacted and Shaw was arrested after he picked up the prescription June 11.
Busch later told police she had called in the prescriptions for the drugs, which are used to treat anxiety, without the doctor’s permission, according to the criminal complaint.
Busch was charged with criminal solicitation to commit acquisition and criminal attempt to commit acquisition by misrepresentation, fraud, forgery or subterfuge.
She was entered into the into the Accelerated Rehabilitative Disposition program, a program for first-time, non-violent offenders, Dec. 10 for two years.
Tuesday’s trial was before Judge William Nalitz
In another case, Justin Don Herrod, 25, of 310 Meadowbrook Road, Waynesburg, was sentenced Monday by Judge Farley Toothman to four years in the county intermediate punishment program on a charge of driving under the influence of alcohol, his second offense in 10 years.
Under the program, Herrod will serve 30 days in jail, which will be followed by 60 days of house arrest. The remaining time will be spent on regular probation.
Herrod will be permitted work release, or a weekend sentence, subject to his work schedule being provided to the jail. He also will be allowed work release while on house arrest, according to the judge’s order. Herrod also was fined $1,650 and ordered to perform 225 hours of community service.
Herrod was arrested Jan. 27, 2013, following a traffic stop on Route 21 in Cumberland Township. He had a blood-alcohol level of .184 percent. Herrod pleaded guilty to DUI and five summary traffic violations Dec. 11.