A Brooklyn woman was charged with attempted criminal possession of a controlled substance and forgery for allegedly sending falsified oxycodone prescriptions to a pharmacy to obtain the pills while she was working at an assisted living facility in 2025, the Nassau County District announced on Friday, May 15.

Tianah Allen was charged with five total counts of attempted criminal possession of a controlled substance and forgery, DA Anne Donnelly said. Allen pleaded not guilty and is due back in court May 26, and if convicted, faces up to one to 5 1/2 years in prison, Donnelly said.

Allen had been working as a medication supervisor at Island Assisted Living in Hempstead since Aug. 12, 2024, and around March 3, 2025, the facility’s administrator initiated an internal investigation into claims that some residents’ prescriptions were being mishandled by the medication staff, which led to Allen being fired, Donnelly said.

Shortly after the Drug Enforcement Administration New York Enforcement Division’s Long Island SPEAR Team launched a jont investigation with several other departments, which revealed on Feb. 25, 2025 that while working at the assisted living, Allen allegedly submitted two prescriptions, each for 90 10mg oxycodone pills, to a pharmacy without authorization, the DA said.

One prescription was written for a resident who had a drug abuse history and the other was written for a resident who died before the medication was delivered to the facility, the DA said.

Surveillance video captured Allen sorting through a recent delivery of residents’ medications at the facility and allegedly placing oxycodone pills into a brown paper bag, carrying it out of the office, and taking it to her car, Donnelly said. At a later date, surveillance video again captured Miller sorting through a recent delivery of residents’ medications at the facility, and allegedly placing oxycodone pills into an envelope, putting the envelope into her purse, and carrying her purse out of the office to her car, the DA said.

On March 1, 2025, surveillance video showed Allen allegedly forging a prescription for herself for 90 10mg oxycodone pills and submitting the prescription to the facility’s pharmacy, the DA said.

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Source: LI Press