Warwick, RI — A man suspected of passing fake prescriptions at a local CVS pharmacy has been arrested on similar charges in Johnston.
Herbert Holmes, 48, is being held at the Adult Correctional Institutions following his July 15 arrest by Johnston Police on four counts of prescription fraud and two counts of conspiracy.
Judge Melanie Thunberg ordered Holmes held without bail after ruling that the Johnston arrest violated terms of probation set on July 2 in a prior case of prescription fraud brought by South Kingstown Police.
Holmes is also identified in a Rhode Island Most Wanted entry as a suspect in Warwick, where police say he submitted a fake prescription at the CVS Pharmacy on Buttonwoods Avenue on June 25.
According to the Most Wanted website, Holmes and an unidentified white male took turns going into a CVS in Johnston and getting Oxycodone by passing fake prescriptions.
Surveillance cameras at the Johnston store recorded Holmes on June 5, and police say he returned to the same store on June 22.
According to online court records, Holmes had been serving one year’s probation and a one-year suspended sentence for failing to appear at hearings on a misdemeanor shoplifting charge out of Providence at the time of his recent arrest.
Charges from the Warwick case had not yet been filed by the publication of this article.
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