The issues with prescription drug issues in Kentucky are well documented. These offenses often begin with something as simple as a person taking a pill or two from another person’s bottle in the medicine cabinet. Unfortunately, taking part of someone else’s prescription can be a felony in Kentucky.
In many of these cases, it’s a matter of unexpected opportunity. Someone sees the remainder of a prescription narcotic in a medicine cabinet and decides to take it for some other purpose. In some cases, there are underlying charges such as prescription fraud, theft, or possession with the intent to sell. Unfortunately, at a traffic stop or other run-in with local law enforcement, any narcotic prescription drugs that are not your own will almost always result in felony charges. There may be a simple explanation for why they were in your possession, but you face serious consequences.
My name is John Schmidt, and after more than 25 years of experience as an attorney here in Shepherdsville, there is a lot I can do to help you. If you are being investigated, or have been arrested for taking part of someone else’s prescription in Shepherdsville, Mount Washington, Shelbyville, Taylorsville, Radcliff, Elizabethtown, Jeffersontown, or the greater Louisville area, you need an experienced criminal defense attorney. I invite you to call me immediately at (502) 509-1490 to learn how to protect yourself and achieve a much better outcome in your case. We can discuss what has happened and all of the ways I can help to get the charges you face reduced or dismissed altogether.
This also applies to sharing some of the pills from your prescription with someone else. You can have a valid prescription for the drug in question, but the moment you share those or sell them to someone else, you open yourself up to felony charges for illegally tracking drugs. You are also placing the person you have given them to in a position of facing criminal charges.
Drug offenses in Kentucky are a very serious matter. Most crimes involving prescription drugs will be charged as a felony, carrying heavy fines and prison time. There is a lot I can and will do to help you. We invite you to contact us via e-mail, schedule an appointment or call us today at (502) 509-1490 to get the advice and aggressive criminal defense you need and deserve. At the Law Offices of John Schmidt & Associates we bring more than 25 years of experience to your side of the equation, and work hard to achieve a much better outcome in your case than you can or will accomplish on your own.