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July 10th, 2008, 06:43 AM
PORT ST. LUCIE — After being accused of forging a prescription and getting jailed for it, a woman faces a charge of child neglect for allegedly leaving her kids home alone while she was behind bars.
A neighbor called police after Rebecca Miller's two young daughters, ages 3 and 6, knocked on her door at 6 p.m. Monday and said their mother had sent them there to play, police said.
Three hours later, the neighbor went to get diapers from Miller's house in the 500 block of S.E. Norseman Drive and found that Miller, 38, was still gone, according to a police report. She became concerned and called police.
The 6-year-old told police that Miller was home early in the afternoon on Monday but when she woke up from a nap later that day, Miller had left a note saying she went to the store. The girl then called her mother on her cell phone and Miller reportedly instructed her to go to the neighbor's house with her younger sister. Miller said she would be back home soon, the girl told police.
After checking their records, police realized that Miller had been arrested that night at about the same time the girls went to their neighbor's.
According to a police report, Miller had pulled into the drive-thru window at a CVS store in the 9100 block of S. U.S. 1 and was trying to buy 140 pills of the painkiller Roxicodone. When the pharmacist noticed that the prescription looked fake, she called police.
Miller was booked into the St. Lucie County jail on Monday on a prescription fraud charge. While Miller was in jail, her daughters were left with the neighbor because their father was out of the state on business, police said.
Miller is being held in jail Wednesday in lieu of $5,000 bail for the prescription fraud and child neglect charges.
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A neighbor called police after Rebecca Miller's two young daughters, ages 3 and 6, knocked on her door at 6 p.m. Monday and said their mother had sent them there to play, police said.
Three hours later, the neighbor went to get diapers from Miller's house in the 500 block of S.E. Norseman Drive and found that Miller, 38, was still gone, according to a police report. She became concerned and called police.
The 6-year-old told police that Miller was home early in the afternoon on Monday but when she woke up from a nap later that day, Miller had left a note saying she went to the store. The girl then called her mother on her cell phone and Miller reportedly instructed her to go to the neighbor's house with her younger sister. Miller said she would be back home soon, the girl told police.
After checking their records, police realized that Miller had been arrested that night at about the same time the girls went to their neighbor's.
According to a police report, Miller had pulled into the drive-thru window at a CVS store in the 9100 block of S. U.S. 1 and was trying to buy 140 pills of the painkiller Roxicodone. When the pharmacist noticed that the prescription looked fake, she called police.
Miller was booked into the St. Lucie County jail on Monday on a prescription fraud charge. While Miller was in jail, her daughters were left with the neighbor because their father was out of the state on business, police said.
Miller is being held in jail Wednesday in lieu of $5,000 bail for the prescription fraud and child neglect charges.
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