SCTI Teacher Obtained Nearly 10,000 Pills

A teacher is out of jail on bond following an arrest for doctor shopping.

The Sarasota County Sheriff's Office arrested the school's drafting teacher Mary Ann Fedak, 56, of 3641 Glen Ridge Lane in Sarasota for getting 9,648 Hydrocodone pain pills from at least four doctors in Sarasota, Lakewood Ranch and Osprey. Overall, she faces 17 counts of withholding information from doctors to get a controlled substance, according to the probable cause affidavit.

In November 2011, detectives with the Pharmaceutical Diversion Investigative Unit received information that Fedak was visiting multiple physicians involved in pain management to obtain controlled substances, and filling prescriptions at multiple pharmacies.

Throughout the investigation they learned that Fedak obtained some 9,648 pills of Hydrocodone over a 10 month period, despite signing patient narcotic agreements at three of the offices stating she would not seek prescriptions of like therapeutic value from other doctors.

Fedak turned herself in to the Hardee County Jail on Friday and was released $5,000 bond, according to the sheriff's office.