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Charged this week in Delaware Circuit Court 2 with obtaining a controlled substance by fraud or deceit, furnishing false or fraudulent information, and failure to make, keep or furnish records.

All three counts are Level 6 felonies carrying maximum 30-month prison terms.

In an affidavit filed Tuesday, Jack Beckley, a drug diversion investigator with the Indiana Attorney General’s office, alleges Johnson stole controlled substances – including hydromorphone, hydrocodone and oxycodone – seven times between last Sept. 20 and Oct. 2.

The affidavit referred to two instances when Johnson allegedly used the system to obtain pain medications that were ostensibly for patients who apparently never received them.

An audit turned up other instances when medications “were removed by Johnson and were not property charted as either being administered or wasted,” the document said.

Interviewed by a hospital police officer on Oct. 5, Johnson denied wrongdoing, and agreed to submit to a drug test.

The result was “presumptive positive for opiates,” the report said, including controlled substances Johnson had not been prescribed.

Interviewed by Beckley on Dec. 1, Johnson again denied diverting any medications, and said “any discrepancies in charting were simply data entry errors.”