A Cal Poly student was arrested Monday on suspicion of forging prescriptions at a local Rite Aid Pharmacy. Natural resources management student Luke Marvos, 23, is also being investigated for the burglaries of a Santa Maria doctor’s office and an elderly San Luis Obispo woman’s residence, according to the San Luis Obispo Police Department.
Marvos spoke to police on Sunday regarding the burglary of an elderly San Luis Obispo woman’s apartment but was released after the interview. He had allegedly met the woman at the Foothill Boulevard Rite Aid and later went to her door soliciting donations for a school project. Her apartment was later burglarized and prescription medication was the only thing stolen, police said.
Suspicion arose when Marvos dropped off three painkiller prescriptions to the Foothill Boulevard Rite Aid on Sunday. Store employees thought the prescriptions may be fraudulent and contacted other local pharmacies, police said.
The Longs Drugs Store on Marsh Street had filled a prescription for Marvos recently and the doctor listed on it had recently had his office burglarized and suspected his prescription pad to be stolen.
When Marvos went to pick up the confirmed fraudulent prescriptions from Rite Aid, he was arrested and consented to a search of his residence in the JB Apartment complex on Foothill Boulevard.
Officers reportedly found evidence that Marvos was selling prescription drugs, including drugs in other people’s names, a small indoor marijuana grow and drug paraphernalia. He was booked into the county jail for prescription forgery, cultivation of marijuana and possessing drug paraphernalia on $20,000 bail.
The Cal Poly natural resources management department had no knowledge of a student fundraiser regarding a greenhouse, which Marvos had reportedly claimed he was collecting donations for while going door-to-door.