(Stillwater) – A teenager pleaded guilty Friday to charges of attempting to obtain Xanax on an altered prescription at a Cushing drug store and obtaining the same drug on an altered prescription at a Stillwater drug store a month later.
Christian J. Buffington, 19, of Stillwater, was committed to the Delayed Sentencing Program of the Department of Corrections Friday and allowed to remain free pending his sentencing on March 5, 2010, before District Judge Donald Worthington.
Buffington has a plea bargain to receive a five-year deferred sentence, a $1,000 fine, a $500 victims’ compensation fund assessment and an order to perform 50 hours of community service along with any recommendations contained in a Youthful Offender Accountability Plan to be prepared for the judge, court records show
In his first charge, Buffington, who then listed a Norman address, was accused of attempting to obtain Xanax on April 13 at Baker Pharmacy in Cushing on an altered prescription.
Pharmacist Doug Baker “told me that Christian Buffington presented a prescription for 90 2 mg Xanax from Dr. (Mars) Gonzaga to him to be filled,” Cushing Police Sgt. Jack Ford wrote in an affidavit.
“Doug told me that the prescription looked odd to him due to the amount that the prescription was written for.
“Doug told me that he contacted Dr. Gonzaga to confim the prescription.
“Dr. Gonzaga told him that the prescription was written to Christian 1 mg Xanax, not 2 mg.
“Doug told me that when he got on the phone with Dr. Gonzaga, Christian seemed to be very nervous and left the pharmacy,” Ford wrote in his affidavit.
Buffington was arrested the same day after Ford stopped the vehicle in which he was traveling with his fiancee in Cushing, the affidavit said.
After he was freed on $2,500 bond, Buffington was charged with obtaining the same drug on May 5 from Campbell Drug in Stillwater by changing the prescription from 1 mg to 2 mg, court records show.
Obtaining or attempting to obtain a controlled drug by an altered prescription carries a maximum penalty of a $10,000 fine and a 10-year prison term, court records show.
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