Caregiver accused of selling prescription narcotics
Thursday, February 14, 2008 5:31 AM PST
By Leslie Slape
lslape@tdn.com
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E-mail this articleA Longview Street Crimes Unit investigation led to the arrest of an adult caregiver on allegations of selling prescription narcotics.
According to an SCU news release, a confidential source bought oxycodone, an addictive painkiller, from Mary Greene, also known as "Grandma," three times since the last week in January.
Detectives and Longview patrol officers served a search warrant Tuesday and arrested her at 1123 Ninth Ave., where she lives with several adults and two small children.
Greene, 63, has a prescription for oxycodone, but she admitted to lead investigator Brian Streissguth she sells the pills "to supplement her income" of taking care of elderly people in their homes, the news release said.
Detectives said Greene's padlocked bedroom closet contained prescriptions for morphine (in pill form) and oxycodone. They said they found many pill bottles with their labels torn off containing morphine, oxycodone, wellbutrin, ativan and trilafon.
Streissguth estimated the street value of the oxycodone at $843 and the morphine's street value at $760.
Greene was booked into the Cowlitz County jail on suspicion of three counts of delivery of a controlled substance in a school zone and one count of possession of a controlled substance with intent to deliver. Bail was set at $25,000.
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