Woman charged in oxycodone probe

A woman who worked with a Great Neck doctor charged with distribution of the painkiller oxycodone has herself been accused of running a separate scheme by selling the doctor's blank prescriptions that were then used to buy the drug, according to court records.

A hearing had been scheduled Thursday in federal court in Central Islip for Sharon Ferreira, 42, of Jamaica, who was accused of selling the blank prescription forms of Dr. Eric Jacobson.

But the hearing for Ferreira, who was charged with illegally distributing oxycodone, was postponed Wednesday. Ferreira pleaded not guilty to the charge in March.

Jacobson, who, according to state records, supplied painkillers to Medford pharmacy killer David Laffer, was among 98 people accused last week in a federal, county and Brooklyn, Queens and Staten Island crackdown on trafficking of painkillers.

Jacobson is not accused of any wrongdoing in the Ferreira case.

In court papers, Ferreira was accused of selling numerous blank prescriptions forms of Jacobson's to a person identified only as a "CS," for confidential source.

The source purchased 15 of Jacobson's blank prescriptions from Ferreira for $1,500 in September 2010 while he was wired by agents of the federal Drug Enforcement Administration, who also observed the transaction, the papers said.

In another conversation taped in September, Ferreira said she was aware the prescriptions were being used to get oxycodone that was then sold to "junkies," according to the papers.

The source bought another eight prescriptions for $500 in November 2010, the papers continued.

The source said he either forged the prescriptions or had someone else do it and had them filled at a pharmacy in the Bronx.

DEA agents checking the records of the Castle Hill Community Pharmacy in the Bronx found that on a number of occasions between June and September 2010, the pharmacy dispensed a total of 25,094 oxycodone pills for prescriptions bearing Jacobson's name.

The prescriptions were numbered consecutively, the papers said.

Randi Chavis, an attorney for Ferreira, declined to comment Wednesday, as did Robert Nardoza, a spokesman for Eastern District prosecutors.

John Martin, an attorney for Jacobson, said that Ferreira had worked with his client at the same Queens medical office in 2010, but was unaware of the charges against her.

Martin said that agents questioned Jacobson about the prescriptions about a year ago and that he had sworn out affidavits that he had not issued them and that they had been forged.

A person at the Castle Hill pharmacy, who declined to identify himself, said he was too busy to talk and told a reporter to call back next week.