A 38-year-old woman from Spokane was arrested for obtaining prescription pain-killers by using other people’s names after a sharp-eyed doctor on Bainbridge Island checked a state prescription database and found the woman was falsely claiming to be her patient.

Bonnie Marie Ramsden was arrested Thursday, Sept. 4 after she allegedly tried to get a phony prescription for Vicodin refilled at the Central Market in Poulsbo.

The investigation into the case began last August after a doctor at the Bainbridge Island Virginia Mason clinic told police that she had discovered someone had been calling in prescriptions fraudulently. The physician said she had checked the state’s prescription database and found a patient with a name she didn’t recognize had been getting prescriptions of Vicodin from her.

The prescriptions dated back to November 2013, and 11 had been filled on different occasions.

Police contacted workers at the Central Market pharmacy to find out when the prescriptions had been filled, and the pharmacy called back to notify officers that the woman had called in for another refill, and then had come to the store to pick it up.

Officers found the woman at the store and discovered her driver’s license did not match the name on the prescription. Police found more than 150 pills in her purse, and a prescription bottle with another 56 pills in her car.

Ramsden first told police she was picking up the drugs at the Poulsbo pharmacy for her aunt, who lived in Kingston but had been in a car accident and had trouble getting around. She also allegedly claimed she had been the victim of identity theft.

While she was being questioned at the police station in Poulsbo, her husband came to the station. He told police that they did not have family in the area.

When police told Ramsden that they had spoken to her husband, and found she did not have an aunt who lived in Kingston, Ramsden became distraught and admitted she had lied, according to a certificate of probable cause.

She told police she had medical issues and that “she got hooked on using more and more meds and couldn’t get more.”

Ramsden also allegedly said she had used old prescriptions from three doctors and made up an aunt as a cover story.

She also said she used four other names to get prescriptions, and also got prescriptions filled at the Rite Aid in Kingston.

Ramsden was booked into Kitsap County Jail on charges of criminal impersonation and using forged prescriptions. Bail was set at $50,000.

She was charged Friday, Sept. 5 in Kitsap County District Court on one felony count of obtaining a controlled substance by fraud or forged prescription.

The felony carries a maximum two-year prison sentence and $2,000 fine upon conviction.