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Written By: Robert L. McCullough
When a person is suffering pain, there can be no greater relief than a proper dose of properly and medically prescribed opioid and at times such sufferers will go to great lengths to acquire their medication—even to the point of making an appointment with their doctor, fighting traffic to get to the doctor’s office, and paying for parking.
There are others, however, who prefer to skip the appointment and parking hassles by obtaining their painkillers through less-than-legal means, which has created a thriving criminal economy focused on the acquisition of marketable prescription medications with the use of false and forged prescription documents. According to Ventura County Sheriff’s Department spokesman Det. Sgt. Kevin Lynch, Glendale, Ca. resident Jack A. Julfayan was an enterprising player in that economy which led to his October 13 th arrest.
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An investigation into Julfayan’s activities began in mid-July, 2022 pursuant to a report from a Moorpark neighborhood pharmacy indicating “a suspect who purchased a large quantity of an opiate-based prescription medication using a forged prescription.” At that point the VCSD Pharmaceutical Crimes Unit and deputies attached to the United States Drug Enforcement Administration took over the investigation. They quickly identified Julfayan as a prime suspect in illicit pharmaceutical sales throughout Southern California, and obtained a search warrant for his Glendale residence.
That search warrant was served in the early afternoon of October 13 th , leading to the discovery of “evidence linking Julfayan to the crimes.” He was transported to Ventura County Jail, where he was book on 13 counts of forging prescriptions and obtaining prescription medication through fraud, six counts of identity theft, and four counts of burglary. He remains in custody, with his bail set at $300,000.
