Sunday's Internet Edition, September 07, 2008.
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Publisher - A woman who tried to pick up a prescription for a man who had been dead almost a week pled guilty Monday.
Mary Beth Cummings, 22, of Walton pled guilty to a charge of attempting to obtain a controlled substance by fraud when she appeared in Roane Circuit Court Monday. Charges of forgery, uttering and conspiracy were dismissed in the plea agreement.
Cummings and another woman allegedly contacted the Roane General Medical Clinic last May in an effort to obtain a prescription for morphine issued to Tommy Ditoto. The women said they had Ditoto’s written permission to pick up the prescription at the clinic. The 42-year-old Ditoto had been killed in an auto accident in Kanawha County six days earlier.
They came to the clinic to get the prescription but police had already been alerted to the situation.
Cummings is facing a maximum possible penalty of 1-to-3 years in prison and a $500 fine when she is sentenced.
Also entering pleas Monday were:
• Regina Veltri-Kee, 40, of Wood Drive, Clendenin. She pled guilty to attempting to operate a clandestine drug lab and is facing up to 2-to-10 years and a $25,000 fine when she is sentenced. Veltri-Kee, a former employee of the W.Va. Attorney General’s office, was indicted on two separate charges of operating or attempting to operate a drug lab out of her home on the Roane-Kanawha County line.
• Jason Douglas Proctor, 29, of Walton for DUI-2nd offense. Proctor was arrested riding an ATV at Walton in July. His plea was to a reduced offense of DUI-2nd offense, which carries a maximum penalty of six months to a year in jail. The original charge of DUI-3rd offense, which carries a penalty of 1-to-3 years in prison, was reduced in the plea agreement. According to court records, Proctor was convicted of DUI in Clay County in 2004 and in Hardy County in 2006.
Judge Tom Evans set sentencing in all three cases for May 15.
