A pre-med student at Florida Atlantic University faces fraud and theft charges after she forged her doctor’s signature on a stolen prescription pad, police said.

Boca Raton police arrested Elizabeth Hopkins, 33, of Pompano Beach, on Tuesday.

The doctor told police Hopkins had been an intern and patient for him and was helping him write a medical research article.

The fake prescriptions were discovered by the doctor’s office manager, who got a fax in April 2015 from a local pharmacy for an Abilify prescription for Hopkins and noticed the doctor’s signature looked odd.

The manager “immediately noticed” the signature wasn’t the doctor’s, then talked with the doctor, who confirmed he didn’t write the prescription, according to the report.

The discovery of the fake prescriptions led to a meeting between the doctor and Hopkins.

When she arrived at the office several days later, she apologized for the forged prescriptions and said she didn’t have any more forms, according to the report.

Hopkins explained she didn’t have time to see her primary care provider, so she wrote her own prescription. The incident was never reported and Hopkins promised to never forge a prescription again, the manager told police.

But in October when the manager learned of an Oxycodone prescription for Hopkins, the doctor set up an account with a state prescription drug monitoring program. A check of the account determined Hopkins had been filing fake prescriptions under the doctor’s name since December 2014, police said.

Detectives then met with another doctor in November from whom they say Hopkins had also forged prescriptions. That doctor said she had never met Hopkins and that Hopkins had no reason to possess her prescription pads.

Broward Sheriff’s Office detectives arrested Hopkins at her home.

In an interview with detectives, Hopkins said she didn’t have any access to prescription pads and never wrote herself a prescription using either doctor’s prescription pads, police said.

Detectives confronted Hopkins about the prescriptions with her name, but Hopkins asked for an attorney, according to the report.

Hopkins faces petty theft, forgery, fraud, drug possession and prescription blanks fraud. She was booked into the Palm Beach County Jail and is being held on $15,000 bail.

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