Cops: High school administrator ‘desperate for relief’ arrested for prescription fraud
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GULF BREEZE, Fla. (WEAR) —
A Gulf Breeze High School administrator is facing multiple charges, including prescription fraud and passing a forged prescription.
According to the Santa Rosa County Jail log, 43-year-old Sean Patrick Tomey was released on bond Thursday, July 20.
The investigation first started on July 19 when the Neighborhood Walmart Pharmacy on Gulf Breeze Parkway contacted police.
The Gulf Breeze Police Department (GBPD) said a pharmacist technician found a prescription they filled was fraudulent. They said the tech received a call from an institution saying the prescriptions from Tomey were not given to him by them.
The tech also told police that Tomey passed fraudulent prescriptions on July 11 for 120 tablets of Tramadol 50 milligrams (mg) and another on July 5 for 90 tablets of Percocet 10 mg.
When police went to the institution to speak about the incident, they said Tomey initially tried to drop of the fraudulent prescriptions to a CVS Pharmacy before heading to Walmart on the 19th.
A CVS pharmacist told police they knew the prescription was fake.
CVS staff told police they confronted Tomey and that “he took the fraudulent prescriptions with him.”
Tomey was taken into custody without incident by police at his home. He has been charged with two counts of passing a forged prescription and one count of prescription fraud.
“Mr. Tomey stated that he did not understand why he was being placed under arrest and did not pass any fraudulent prescriptions to any pharmacy,” states the arrest report. Tomey told police he had received the prescriptions from the institution about two months ago.
After evidence was presented by police, Tomey admitted to creating the fakes on his laptop. He told police that his pain had increased over the years and doctors weren’t able to give him any help.
“He was desperate for relief of pain he was suffering from previous injuries,” according to the arrest report.
According to the Gulf Breeze High School website, Tomey serves as the top administrator for the school’s guidance department.
Superintendent Tim Wyrosdick said Tomey has been placed on paid administrative leave pending the outcome of the investigation. Wyrosdick told Channel 3 News per school policy, he will not have contact with students.
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Whst us happening to chronic pain sufferers nationwide is devastating! My heart goes out to this man, I to suffer in intractable pain, I have been abandoned by my doctor of five years because if the corrupt government and thier sidekicks the DEA, Cdc, FDA AND PROP and true full blown attack on innocent law abiding chronically ill citizens! ! I am in a torturous hell thru no fault of my own! I beg god to take me daily to end the pain! The government knows dam well that by denying legitimate pain pts their lifesaving pain medication will make us desperate for relief. Many are turning to SUICIDE to end the pain, many turning to the streets for relief getting God knows what. Excruciating pain 24/7 with no relief in sight can cause a person to do things they wouldn’t normally do. The government is committing GENOCIDE thru out the pain community and not one word from the media! I wish nothing but agonizing pain on each and every corrupt asshole who is playing a part in denying pain pts their lifeline!!
Kathleen Kaiser, I am amazed that anyone is reporting they get a prescription for 120 Percocet per month. Wow! What kind physician is helping you avoid the insanity so many of us have to deal with. The physicians in the community where I live are TOTAL jerks!!! Seriously, their behavior is beyond belief. Obviously, they are masochistic who love the idea of inflicting pain on pitiful people who come to them for help. If I described the way the physicians I have had to deal with behave, I wouldn’t expect anyone to believe me, without experience it themselves.
I hope Mr. Tomey wasn’t just a drug thief, rather than a legitimate pain sufferer who was driven beyond what any human should have to tolerate. There are more and more of us who are struggling to operate without pain medication. We’re not just struggling with less pain medication, we are trying to get by with NO pain medication!!! We are experiencing much more pain, and we are living limited and difficult lives.
I believe there will be many, many more horror stories of pain sufferers who reach the limit of human tolerance and, finally, react in anger and desperation.
When I recently heard that a physician had been shot and killed by a pain patient, I said, “Oh, good, I hope it was one of my former doctors.” No such luck. I hope the gunman in that particular situation really was a true pain sufferer who was just driven beyond what he could tolerate. That might at least provide him some minimal defense when he faces trial.
The story you are referring to was where a doctor was shot by a chronic pain pt’s HUSBAND and the HUSBAND ended up killing himself
While I can appreciate the need for the pain meds and as Brook pointed out, he did not prescribe himself stronger meds that he could have I still have to point out that he filled two prescriptions within 6 days of each other. And the first one was for 90 tablets or Percocet and the second for 120 tablets of Tramadol. That seems excessive to me. For example I get 120 Percocet per month. That enough to take them four times per day..
Well when you’re doing something illegal the point is probably to stock up. Remember it wasn’t written by a doctor this person was desperate. For all we know he might take two percocet a day with tramadol for breakthrough pain.
I guarantee he wasn’t selling the tramadol. That’s not a happy fun time drug and not sought after. A dealer would walk away laughing in your face if you asked for it and think you’re a cop.
I’m gonna go out on a limb here and say he needed them and I don’t think it’s fair to suspect abuse just because a person takes more than average.
I agree Emily, in fact when I was on the right doses, I was taking stronger meds then what this man got. Tramadol is like tylnol for me. Does nothing for me, and I’m beyond 10 mgs percocets too. I’d never judge anyone and the doses they take, we are all different, tolerate pain and medication differently. I feel for this man, the government should be held accountable for pushing pain pts to their breaking point. The DEA targets the sick , guess that makes them heroes to the healthy, I think their all cowards, hiding behind a fictious opiod epidemic
Very sad to read this.There may be more to this story than we know.Does this person have a background of drug abuse? Did he see more than one doctor? Is he handicapped by his condition?
If his condition is legitimate,and confirmed by tests,Mri etc.I find it hard to believe he couldn’t find one decent Doctor willing to do what their oath compels them to do,relieve suffering.Sorry to sound skeptical,but it is a reality that many with abuse problems often resort to illegal activities such as this as well as street drugs.However it is also a reality that many doctors are afraid to prescribe such meds and many go untreated or Undertreated.Whatever his situation is,I hope authorities will understand he needs treatment if there’s an abuse problem,not being locked in a cage.The doctors also need to understand if his condition is legitimately this bad,they need to do their job,relieve suffering.Either way,our system needs more common sense and compassion.
Ha. Guess you’ve never been in the situatuon of being dropped by your doctor when your joints are visibly dislocated along with a bunch of other comorbidities to prove your condition (mine is EDS) because the people you can get a hold of in your area simply don’t understand your disease. You realize not everywhere has appropriate specialists and not everyone can go wherever they want because insurance is so limited with area coverage now right? Wish I were still living under that rock and blissfully unaware people are being left to suffer and die over piddly meds like tramadol and other low dose opiates because some muckity muck with a degree deemed you unworthy of relief.
I don’t find it hard to believe at all that he couldn’t find a dr to help and willing to prescribe the meds he required to sustain a quality of life. In fact my dr of 5 yrs abandoned me back in April, same stable dose for 8yrs, Gov Christie puts out a 7days limit here in NJ, the next day my dr dropped me like garbage, left me on my own. He did give me last scripts that he cut way back and told me his license is more important. I’ve yet to find a dr to take over, I’ve called many places and am fed up with being talked down to. Treated like I’m some pill seeking junkie, I’m so sick of it! Undermedicated pain leaves one feeling hopeless, depressed, and asking God to end the pain.
CVS knew the scripts were fraudulent and handed them back to him? That CVS pharmacist should be fired for knowingly giving back a fraudulent controlled script. Whenever a customer gave a fraudulent (or altered) script at the pharmacy I worked at, we did not give it back to the customer.
This guy would have been better off buying drugs off the street or from someone he knows. He likely wouldn’t have been caught going that route. (I’m not condoning it, especially with the counterfeit fentanyl pills that are out on the street killing people.) Simply stating that he probably wouldn’t have been caught.
It’s so sad that someone in pain has to resort to writing fake scripts. One script was for tramadol. The other for percocet 10 mg. He knew he could get caught…it was only a matter of time. Yet, he wrote a script for tramadol? He could have written scripts for Oxycontin, morphine, hydromorphone, etc..
I think this is proof that doctors aren’t writing scripts and patients are suffering. This man didn’t start shooting up heroin. It appears he tried to obtain the drugs that worked to decrease his pain and help him function and work. Was it a good decision? No. He’s probably never going to be able to get pain medication prescribed to him ever again. But, it seems like he wasn’t getting medications anyways..which is what led him to do this.
I don’t know what it will take for the government to realize that they’re doing harm? Doctors shouldn’t be afraid to prescribe opioids. The government should NOT have control over what medication a doctor prescribes to a patient and the dosage..they are not doctors.
jmo,,I think the pharmacist,,,was just being a decent person,,,not a pharmacist,,,For being a decent person,,,by handing them back,,MAyBE,,, she/he was hoping he would just go home/try to get a Doc to help,,but,,it added less charges to him,,u know what I mean,,???maryw
I feel for him also. At the same time I am in horrible pain and after moving have been left high and dry to have Fentanyl withdrawls. I personally don’t feel that this justifies me breaking the law. If I were a role model for all those kids, well I would probably just suffer, again. But then I am me and he is him and I don’t know what is in his head. In any case it is not my job to judge others, Thanks You God!! There is definitely something wrong when because we have the unmitigated gallery to suffer with pain we are disregarded, disrespected, and treated as if we are inherently dishonest. I should not be surprised that doctors who lie as easily as they breathe can’t help but project and assume that their patients are lying also. Not.big on the medical field especially doctors. I can’t imagine why, can you?
This is the state of affairs in the USA today which chronic pain patients must endure. It is unbelievable in the year 2017 that this poor man could not obtain pain relief and had to resort to this to end his pain. This was a WORKING productive member of society who was in PAIN and needed his medications!!! What is wrong with our leaders??? He is not the one who should be prosecuted–our government somehow needs to be held accountable along with all those Senators wanting to reduce opioids even more. When is the news going to report our story????
Vic, I agree. I have nothing but pity for this man, whose crime was merely wanting relief from physical pain. I’ve been there and completely understand a lot of what he’s going through.
I agree, sad times we are living in, chronic pain patients got to resort to this because no Dr will help
Agreed!
ditto,,,maryw