CARMEL, Ind. – A Carmel nurse practitioner and business owner landed in jail this week.

Katherine N. Curtis, 34, was booked on preliminary charges of unlawful dispensation of a controlled substance and dealing in a controlled substance by a practitioner, according to jail records.

The Drug Enforcement Administration said the arrest stemmed from an eight-month, multi-agency investigation involving DEA agents, the Carmel Police Department and the Indianapolis Metropolitan Police Department.

Investigators received information from several pharmacies that Curtis, a licensed nurse practitioner, was overprescribing medications and writing fraudulent prescriptions.

In some cases, she wrote the prescriptions using the names of other nurse practitioners, police said.

More than a dozen people r

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