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Cops Bust Two for Impersonation To Get Prescription Pills

Southampton woman held on $19,500 bail.

In two unrelated incidents Friday, Southampton Village police arrested a Riverhead man and a Southampton woman and charged them with lying to get their hands on narcotics.

The first incident was at , where police said 36-year-old Lamont D. Crosby used someone else’s identity to obtain Percocet at around 10:17 a.m.  Hospital officials became suspicious and notified police, according to authorities.

Then later than day at around 4 p.m. 40-year-old Kimberly A. Cerlenko called on Main Street impersonating a medical professional to phone-in a prescription for Xanax, police said. An employee notified police and Cerlenko was arrested at around 7 p.m. when she showed up at CVS to pick up the prescription, according to police, who said she had a stolen medical benefit card on her at the time.

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Southampton Town police charged Cerlenko with a similar crime on Feb. 25. She called in two prescriptions to the pharmacy at in Hampton Bays on Feb. 19, pretending to be from a doctor’s office, according to police. The prescriptions were for Adderall and an amphetamine-based stimulant and she was recorded on security cameras picking up the pills, police said. On that occasion, she was charged with criminal impersonation in the first degree, a felony, and petit larceny, a misdemeanor.

On Friday, Cerlenko was charged with criminal possession of stolen property in the fourth degree and criminal impersonation in the first degree, both felonies, and criminal possession of stolen property in the fifth degree, criminal possession of a controlled substance in the seventh degree and obtaining a controlled substance by fraud or deceit, all misdemeanors. She was remanded to Suffolk County Jail in Riverside in lieu of $19,500 bail.

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Crosby was charged with identity theft in the third degree, criminal impersonation in the second degree, attempted criminal possession of a controlled substance in the seventh degree and obtaining a controlled substance by fraud or deceit, all misdemeanors. He was remanded to Suffolk County Jail in Riverside in lieu of $500 bail.

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