A 43-year-old Mason City woman was sentenced Tuesday to 1 month in federal prison after a February 7th guilty plea to 1 count of acquiring a controlled substance by means of misrepresentation, fraud, deception, and subterfuge.
In a plea agreement, Megan Elsbury admitted to being employed and working at at least three different pharmacies in Mason City from 2008-2023. During her employment, Elsbury admitted she diverted controlled substances including codeine, lorazepam, and tramadol, for her own personal use.
She created unauthorized prescriptions and falsified prescription records/inventory, in the names of existing patients, primarily when the pharmacy was closed, filled the prescriptions, paid for the prescriptions, and took the prescriptions for her own personal use.
Elsbury must also serve a 1-year term of supervised release after the prison term. She must surrender to the United States Marshals service on July 14th.
