By Andrew Amelinckx
The Berkshire Eagle
PITTSFIELD, Mass. — A local emergency medical technician and paramedic whom prosecutors say conspired with two other medical professionals to obtain fraudulent prescriptions for painkillers had 19 criminal charges that had been filed against him continued without a finding of guilt for one year.
Kevin W. Andrews, 46, of Hinsdale, appeared before Berkshire Superior Court Judge C. Jeffrey Kinder on multiple charges of fraudulently obtaining a controlled substance and making a false health care claim, and a single charge of conspiracy to utter a false prescription.
According to Assistant Berkshire District Attorney Joseph Yorlano, former physician assistant Jennifer M. Stall, 30, of Chatham, N.Y., illegally wrote Andrews nine prescriptions for the painkillers Vicodin and Oxycodone between March and August 2011, which he then had filled and helped pay for through his insurance. Stall and Andrews worked together at County Ambulance Inc., where Stall was a part-time paramedic and Andrews was the operations manager.
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