Fake MRI leads Williamsburg police to arrest one

Williamsburg police have charged a Lily woman with using a phony MRI in an effort to obtain Lorcet and Valium from a local doctor.
Williamsburg Police Detective Wayne Bird charged Jennifer R. Creech, 25, with eight counts of attempting to obtain a controlled substance by fraud.
Bird said that the woman’s doctor alerted police last Wednesday.
“She was seeing the doctor as a patient, and he had ordered for her to go take an MRI at Corbin hospital,” Bird said. “Instead of her actually going to take the MRI, she took somebody else’s MRI sheet, put name on it, brought it back to the doctor, and was getting a controlled substance based on that.
“The doctor for some reason decided to check the MRI, called the Corbin hospital to confirm it, and there was no such record that she ever had an MRI there.”
Bird said when he presents the case to the grand jury, he would probably amend the charges to four counts of obtaining a controlled substance by fraud, and for four counts of attempting to obtain a controlled substance by fraud.
“Over a period of two months, she actually obtained two different controlled substances on two different occasions. Then she attempted to on the day she was arrested, and she attempted the time before that,” he said.
At the time of Creech’s arrest, Bird said she was also wanted by Laurel County authorities, who had obtained a seven-count indictment charging her with obtaining a controlled substance by fraud.
“She had apparently been doing the same thing up there,” Bird added.
No additional arrests are anticipated in connection with the case.
Williamsburg Police Officer Jason Caddell and Sheriff’s Deputy Jerry Noe assisted Bird in the investigation.
Bird said this case isn’t connected to a similar case he worked this past summer where a group of people from Tennessee were using a copy of someone’s MRI sheet to get drugs from a local doctor.
“Basically what they did was get somebody’s MRI sheet, made copies of it, and they changed the names. They were coming to the doctor, and getting controlled substances based on that,” Bird said.