Bogus Prescription Order Foiled

An employee at , 811 Green Bay Rd. in Wilmette, tipped police off to a man who posed as a doctor and attempted to illegally obtain prescription drugs Sunday.

The suspect, thought to be in his 20s, posed as a doctor to call in a prescription for a "William Lee" to pick up 60 tablets of a generic form of Hydrocodone, a drug used to relieve pain and coughing. The employee, who put a call into the real doctor, and discovered that he had not authorized the medicine. The doctor told the Walgreens employee that someone has been using his identity to make several fraudulent orders.

When the intended recipient arrived at the pharmacy to pick up the prescription, the employee created a diversion by saying she had mixed up the order. Meanwhile, she had a co-worker call Wilmette police to the scene. The employee indicated that the doctor imposter over the phone was the same person who attempted to retrieve the pills.

The suspect, who left before police arrived, was described as an Asian male of medium build and about 5-foot-7 tall.

Police later ran the phone number left by the suspect through a database. The search revealed a potential offender who had been arrested by Naperville police in October over possession of a controlled substance.