Man accused of forging prescriptions

Local pharmacies are on the lookout after a 40-year-old man has been accused of submitting forged prescriptions.  

Jimmy Leavy, 40, from Peoria, Ill., faces a preliminary charge of attempting to obtain a controlled substance by fraud, and he was wanted on a warrant out of Marshall County, Ind., for possession of marijuana and operating a vehicle while intoxicated. He has 11 aliases and an extensive criminal history, with arrests in Texas, Georgia, Illinois, Wisconsin and Indiana.  

Bloomington Police Department Officer Shane Rasche was dispatched at 5:13 p.m. Friday to the Marsh grocery store’s pharmacy at 123 S. Kingston Drive on reports of a fraudulent prescription.  

The pharmacist said Leavy gave her a fraudulent prescription for the controlled substance promethazine with codeine, Drake said, reading from a police report.

She had received a call earlier that day from a Target pharmacy, warning other area pharmacies about fraudulent prescriptions.  

The Marsh pharmacy called the doctor’s office, a clinic out of Chicago, listed on the prescription notepad and confirmed it had been stolen.  

The Target pharmacy in Bloomington received an e-mail from other Target pharmacies in Muncie and Lafayette regarding the fraudulent prescriptions from a clinic out of Chicago, Drake said. When police asked Leavy about the prescription, his only comment was “How much is my bond?” Drake said, reading from a police report.  

An unknown female has also been taking fraudulent prescriptions from the same clinic out of Chicago to other Bloomington pharmacies, Drake said.  

Police said they will review surveillance video and continue investigating this.  

BPD is asking anyone with any information to contact BPD Detective Brandon Lopossa at 339-4477.