BY WILLIAM A. WEATHERS
The Cincinnati Enquirer
Dr. Sean Maguire, a Cincinnati physician who also has an office in Northern Kentucky, was arrested Wednesday on charges of writing bogus prescriptions.
Dr. Maguire, a plastic surgeon who works at University Hospital in Corryville and has an office in Cynthiana, Ky., is charged with three felony counts of obtaining a controlled substance by fraud.
Dr. Maguire, of the 3600 block of Zumstein Avenue in Hyde Park, as arrested by the Hamilton County Sheriff's Office on a warrant from Kenton County.
Dr. Maguire used phony names to write prescriptions for Percocet, a synthetic narcotic, and obtained the drug for himself on three occasions in April and May, Daniel Steers, director of the Northern Kentucky Drug Strike Force, said Wednesday.
The arrest was the result of a joint investigation by the drug strike force and the Cincinnati Police Division's Pharmaceutical Diversion Squad.
Dr. Maguire has surrendered his U.S. Drug Enforcement Agency license to prescribe controlled substances, the two police agencies said.
The physician was arrested by Cincinnati police in September and charged with five counts of illegal processing of a drug document, police said. A subsequent joint investigation by the two drug enforcement agencies revealed he may have written more than 200 bogus prescriptions in various patient names.
Those prescriptions were written for oxycodone, a synthetic narcotic designed to relieve severe pain, and ibuprofen. More than 8,000 pills may have been obtained throughout Hamilton County and Northern Kentucky, authorities said.
