{"id":49485,"date":"2025-11-14T14:45:16","date_gmt":"2025-11-14T14:45:16","guid":{"rendered":"https:\/\/www.newsbeep.com\/us-tx\/49485\/"},"modified":"2025-11-14T14:45:16","modified_gmt":"2025-11-14T14:45:16","slug":"nurse-practitioner-matthew-price-charged-with-writing-illegal-prescriptions","status":"publish","type":"post","link":"https:\/\/www.newsbeep.com\/us-tx\/49485\/","title":{"rendered":"Nurse Practitioner Matthew Price charged with writing illegal prescriptions"},"content":{"rendered":"<p class=\"text | article-text\">LUBBOCK COUNTY, Texas (KCBD) &#8211; A 39-year-old nurse practitioner from the Permian Basin is facing multiple criminal charges in Lubbock County after authorities discovered prescription drugs and a blank prescription pad during a traffic stop.<\/p>\n<p class=\"text | article-text\">Matthew Price is accused of possessing and peddling prescription drugs.<\/p>\n<p class=\"text | article-text\">A Lubbock County Sheriff\u2019s deputy discovered a blank prescription pad and a duffle bag full of pills after pulling Price over for a traffic stop, according to court documents.<\/p>\n<p class=\"text | article-text\">The deputy reports Price claimed he had permission from his employer to keep a blank prescription pad, but his boss said that wasn\u2019t true.<\/p>\n<p class=\"text | article-text\">Price is now charged with four counts of drug possession and one count of possessing a fraudulent script.<\/p>\n<p class=\"copyright |\">Copyright 2025 KCBD. All rights reserved.<\/p>\n","protected":false},"excerpt":{"rendered":"LUBBOCK COUNTY, Texas (KCBD) &#8211; A 39-year-old nurse practitioner from the Permian Basin is facing multiple criminal charges&hellip;\n","protected":false},"author":2,"featured_media":49486,"comment_status":"","ping_status":"","sticky":false,"template":"","format":"standard","meta":{"footnotes":""},"categories":[16],"tags":[168,170,169],"class_list":{"0":"post-49485","1":"post","2":"type-post","3":"status-publish","4":"format-standard","5":"has-post-thumbnail","7":"category-lubbock","8":"tag-lubbock","9":"tag-lubbock-headlines","10":"tag-lubbock-news"},"_links":{"self":[{"href":"https:\/\/www.newsbeep.com\/us-tx\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/posts\/49485","targetHints":{"allow":["GET"]}}],"collection":[{"href":"https:\/\/www.newsbeep.com\/us-tx\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/posts"}],"about":[{"href":"https:\/\/www.newsbeep.com\/us-tx\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/types\/post"}],"author":[{"embeddable":true,"href":"https:\/\/www.newsbeep.com\/us-tx\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/users\/2"}],"replies":[{"embeddable":true,"href":"https:\/\/www.newsbeep.com\/us-tx\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/comments?post=49485"}],"version-history":[{"count":0,"href":"https:\/\/www.newsbeep.com\/us-tx\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/posts\/49485\/revisions"}],"wp:featuredmedia":[{"embeddable":true,"href":"https:\/\/www.newsbeep.com\/us-tx\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/media\/49486"}],"wp:attachment":[{"href":"https:\/\/www.newsbeep.com\/us-tx\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/media?parent=49485"}],"wp:term":[{"taxonomy":"category","embeddable":true,"href":"https:\/\/www.newsbeep.com\/us-tx\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/categories?post=49485"},{"taxonomy":"post_tag","embeddable":true,"href":"https:\/\/www.newsbeep.com\/us-tx\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/tags?post=49485"}],"curies":[{"name":"wp","href":"https:\/\/api.w.org\/{rel}","templated":true}]}}