About one in every five Staten Island residents has a prescription for oxycodone, and apparently they don't even have to be alive. Vincent and Taina Iacuzzi of New Springville, Staten Island were arrested for forging prescriptions for oxycodone and Xanax under the name of Taina's mother, Mary Kelly...who died on March 14th. Dr. Dominic Pompa told the Staten Island Advance, "I don’t know how anybody could come into an office with your mother dead two weeks and ask for a script. Now I’ve seen everything."
Taina claimed that Kelly needed the drugs because she had broken her foot, and was too injured to pick up the prescriptions herself. She was told she would need a letter signed by her mother, so she forged one saying Kelly was an "invalid" and watching a young grandchild. That was enough to get her a prescription for 75 doses of 30 mg oxycodone, and 85 doses of 2 mg Xanax. But by the time they tried to fill it, the Bureau of Narcotics Enforcement was alerted to what was going on.
Both Iacuzzis face charges of fourth- and seventh-degree criminal possession of a controlled substance and first-degree falsifying business records, and Taina Iacuzzi was charged with third-degree criminal possession of a forged instrument.
