Two nurses employed by VA Butler Healthcare have been charged with conspiring to illegally obtain a prescription for a large quantity of the prescription painkiller Percocet in December.

Ann M. Twentier, 53, of Portersville, and Eugene John Lewis, 58, of Leeper, Clarion County, were charged with felony and misdemeanor charges by the Pennsylvania Attorney General’s office, and were released on unsecured bail at their preliminary arraignments last week before Magisterial District Judge Duane L. Quinn in Clarion.

Both are charged with a felony count of conspiracy to acquire a controlled substance by fraud and a misdemeanor count of furnishing false or fraudulent material information. Their preliminary hearings are scheduled for July 26.

The charges stem from an investigation that began Dec. 20 when the manager of a CVS Pharmacy in Clarion contacted attorney general narcotics agent Stephanie McElhaney about a voicemail that Lewis allegedly left at the pharmacy on Dec. 18 for a prescription for 240 tablets containing 10 milligrams of Percocet for Twentier, who Lewis identified as a patient, according to an affidavit of probable cause.

Lewis is certified nurse practitioner, and Twentier is a registered nurse, according to the affidavit.

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