Columbia woman arrested for forging prescriptions
A local registered nurse and aesthetician is out on bond Wednesday morning after she was arrested on charges of forging 17 prescriptions for Adderall.
Elisabeth Trumbower was arrested Tuesday at 1603 Chapel Hill Road, the same address as Pela Cura Anti-Aging and Wellness medical spa. ABC17 News learned Trumbower is the spa’s owner.
Police said a radiologist reported on Nov. 30 that someone was writing prescriptions under his name for the drug but as a radiologist, he had no reason to prescribe Adderall and had never prescribed it.
Officers said they learned that Trumbower had forged 17 different prescriptions at five different locations in Columbia and Boone County.
Police said the 17 forged prescriptions were made out to two different people, one of them Trumbower.
The handwriting on all the prescriptions appeared to be the same.
Surveillance video from the pharmacies showed Trumbower passing and picking up the forged prescriptions, police said.
Trumbower was arrested on 17 counts each of forgery and fraudulently attempting to obtain a controlled substance.
ABC17 News reached out to Trumbower to hear her side of the story, but she was unavailable. A receptionist for the spa told ABC17 News Trumbower “has no comment and she’ll beat this like she beat the cancer.”
ABC17 News learned Trumbower is a breast cancer survivor and was diagnosed in 2015.
Her father and a local Ob-Gyn for decades, Dr. William Trumbower was diagnosed with kidney cancer shortly after her cancer diagnosis and died in March. Shortly before his death, William Trumbower was working with Elisabeth Trumbower at the medical spa, continuing his work on bioidentical hormone replacement and natural endocrines.
