BRIEF: Woman’s Prescription Ploy is Now History

By The Kansas City Star, Mo.

Oct. 19–Robert E. Lee has been dead for 137 years.

But that didn’t stop Shannah M. Surber, 28, from using his name to fraudulently get prescription drugs, Jackson County prosecutors alleged Thursday.

An alert pharmacist knew that the nursing home where “Lee” supposedly lived used another pharmacy. Then the doctor who supposedly authorized the prescription said he didn’t have a patient named Robert E. Lee.

Surber was charged with attempted prescription fraud and illegally possessing hydrocodone.

| Tony Rizzo, trizzo@kcstar.com

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