The fire was intended to burn fake prescriptions the suspect tried to use to obtain drugs at a nearby CVS, police said.
MEDFORD TOWNSHIP -- A 27-year-old Ewing man accused of setting fire to a restaurant bathroom in order to destroy fake prescriptions was taken into custody Saturday, according to authorities.
Police said Craig Muehleisen Jr. faces charges of aggravated arson, conspiracy to obtain CDS by fraud, tampering with evidence, receiving stolen property, uttering a forged document and related drug offenses in connection with the incident.
Muehleisen was allegedly one of four individuals who tried to use fraudulent prescriptions -- forged on a stolen prescription pad -- to obtain an unspecified drug at the CVS Pharmacy on Route 70 at about 6:30 p.m. on July 20.
After police were called to the scene, Muehleisen fled to the nearby restaurant where he ignited a fire in the bathroom to burn the rest of the fake prescriptions, according to police.
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Two of his alleged accomplices, 24-year-old Shamika Laws and 34-year-old Tarrik Boles, both of Trenton, were caught by police at a nail salon nearby. A third individual, 61-year-old Sandra McRae also of Trenton, was taken into custody at the CVS.
Laws faces charges of possession of a controlled dangerous substance and conspiracy to obtain a controlled dangerous substance by fraud. McRae was charged with criminal attempt to obtain a controlled dangerous substance by fraud, uttering a forged document and receiving stolen property.
Both were later released.
Boles was charged with conspiracy to obtain a controlled dangerous substance by fraud and transferred to the custody of the Mercer County Sheriff's Department due to an outstanding warrant in the county.
Muehleisen was charged with a slew of offenses on July 27 and taken into custody three days later.
He remains in Burlington County Jail in lieu of $120,000 full bail.
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