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By BRIAN HUBER Conley News Service WAUKESHA — Two cousins led a ring of more than a dozen people who passed or attempted to pass fraudulent prescriptions for opioid painkillers around Waukesha County during the past two years, accord- ing to a criminal complaint filed Monday in Waukesha County Circuit Court. DeMarvis Johnson, 35, was charged with two counts of attempting to obtain a con- trolled substance by fraud, with each count punishable by up to three years in prison if convicted. His cousin, 28, an alleged ring- leader, is not being named until formal charges are filed. Also charged with obtaining a controlled substance by fraud were: Christopher Koehn, 48, of Palmyra; Maria Thayer, 37, of Milwaukee; Mesheka Wolfe, 33, of Milwaukee; Angela Edwards, 27, of Denmark; Yolanda Hamilton, 23, of Milwaukee; Shuneka Laymond Thornton, 24, Glendale (three counts); Jasma Jackson, 23, Milwaukee; David Erdman, 25, Hubertus; Nicole Glinsey, 32, Milwaukee; Mary Koehn, 33, Palmyra; and Katisha Mallet, 28, Milwaukee (five counts). All face six years in prison on each count if con- victed. Also charged with attempting to obtain a controlled substance by fraud were: Agnes Carroll, 37, of Milwaukee; Thayer, Kiara Dorsey, 29 of Milwaukee; Wolfe (two counts); Edwards; Sherri McFarland, 33, Milwaukee; and Claudia Wolfe, 29, Milwaukee. According to the complaint, the U.S. Drug Enforcement Administration was involved as local police investigated the alleged prescription fraud ring, which saw suspects go to pharmacies in Menomonee Falls, Brookfield and Waukesha, seeking up to 180 pills of 30 mg oxycodone using fraud- ulent prescriptions. In four cases, the prescriptions went unfilled; in one the suspect walked out when she was aware pharmacy staff sus- pected fraud; in another, the doctor's signa- ture on the prescription did not match the known signature of the doctor; in another, a person named "Mario" answered the phone at what was supposedly a doctor's office, the complaint said. "The investigation showed that Johnson was assisting (the unnamed suspect) in recruiting people to fill forged prescrip- tions and driving people to pharmacies to fill the forged prescriptions," the complaint said. "On Aug. 15, 2014, (DEA task force offi- cer Scott) Simons interviewed Johnson who stated (the unnamed suspect) is his cousin. "Johnson admitted to obtaining fraudu- lent prescriptions from (his cousin) and giv- ing these prescriptions to other people and then driving these people to various phar- macies to have these people fill the pre- scriptions. These people would then give the pills to Johnson, who would then turn them over to (his cousin). Johnson stated that after (his cousin) would sell the pills, (the cousin) would pay $100 to the person who filled the prescription." 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