Monroe man faces new drug and forgery charges

Monroe - A Monroe man, jailed last month on charges he used forged prescriptions to obtained painkillers, faces new forgery and drug possession charges. On Nov. 17, at about 6 a.m. on Nov. 17, a Monroe police officer pulled over a vehicle driven by Bruce J. Wilson, 48, of North Main Street, on a charge of running a red light. Police said Wilson had a few tablets of Hydrocodone, a prescription painkiller. Monroe Police arrested Wilson in October on charges of possessing prescriptions stolen from a Westchester hospital and allegedly forging the prescriptions and the doctors’ signatures and bringing them to several local pharmacies and receiving the drug Hydrocodone, a controlled substance. Wilson was out on bail from the original charges when he was stopped Nov. 17. Before the arrest, Stony Point cops contacted Monroe police regarding a man they arrested for presenting a forged prescription in Stony Point. Police said this man told them that Wilson had given him the scripts for Hydrocodone and forged the information. Police compared the script recovered by Stony Point Police and the ones seized when Wilson was arrested in October and found them to be identical. Police said they also discovered that one of the forged prescriptions was used at the Rite Aid pharmacy in Monroe on Nov. 7 for Hydrocodone under a fictitious name and that Wilson had used two forged prescriptions at two pharmacies in New Windsor. Wilson faces new charges of second-degree forgery, a felony, and seventh-degree criminal possession of a controlled substance, a misdemeanor, in Monroe. He was turned over to New Windsor Police and charged with forgery and criminal possession of a forged instrument charges and then sent to Orange County Jail on $35,000.00 bail.