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A Billings nurse used different names and faked personal details to obtain narcotics from dozens of medical professionals in six Montana cities, investigators allege.

Amanda Poepping, 42, appeared in Yellowstone County Justice Court on Thursday on one felony charge of fraudulently obtaining dangerous drugs.

Poepping said she was placed on administrative leave at Billings Clinic in November 2014. Her current employment status was not immediately clear.

Poepping is accused of filling 157 prescriptions for 6,742 units of medication written by 57 different medical professionals from about January 2012 to November 2014. It was not made clear why charges were filed Thursday, almost three years after the offenses are alleged to have occurred.

Billings Clinic lists her dates of employment as from July, 2000 to May, 2015.