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Clearwater doctor arrested on prescription drug charges

 
Published Dec. 3, 2014

CLEARWATER — A pain management doctor was arrested Monday evening on charges that she bought controlled substances by using fraudulent prescriptions.

According to the Pinellas County Sheriff's Office, Dr. Lynne C. Columbus filled the prescriptions at several pharmacies in Pinellas.

Deputies arrested her at her practice, Gulf Coast Pain Management, at 3001 Eastland Blvd. in unincorporated Clearwater.

The investigation began last month when detectives received a tip about Columbus writing prescriptions for oxycodone using patient's names.

Columbus, 50, faces charges of attempting to obtain controlled substances by fraud.

She was booked into the Pinellas County jail, but was released Monday night on $10,000 bail.