A Haverhill man pleaded not guilty Thursday to more than 100 charges of prescription and credit card fraud and identity theft.
Vincent Leo, 37, was accused by Attorney General Martha Coakley’s office of using fake prescriptions and posing as a nurse or a patient to obtain and distribute more than 10,000 oxycodone pills. He was also charged in a credit card fraud scheme that involved stealing card data from diners at a Waltham restaurant and using it to make fake cards.
“This case and the subsequent, successful indictment of Vincent Leo is the result of hundreds of hours of hard work,” said Haverhill Police Detective Lieutenant Robert Pistone, who called the case a “great cooperative effort” involving state and federal authorities.
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Coakley’s office alleged that Leo used fake prescription pads with real doctors’ names and prescription authorization numbers to collect thousands of tablets of the powerful opiate painkiller oxycodone from 2012 to 2014. Leo, who was indicted by a grand jury in November, was previously arrested in March after credit-card manufacturing equipment was found in his home.
A call to Leo’s attorney was not returned. He is being held at the Middleton House of Corrections on $50,000 bail, and a pre-trial hearing was scheduled for December 12.
