A Utah man accused of posing as a doctor pleaded guilty Monday to three of nine criminal charges filed against him.
Brooke R. Allen, 30, repeatedly represented himself as a doctor, giving people codeine and recommending they stop taking other prescribed medication, according to the charges.He also was accused of telling the parents of a boy who had consumed swimming-pool cleaner not to phone a poison control center hotline and urged a mother to stop her son from using a prescribed skin cream, saying it would cause sterility.
Investigators say he posed as a doctor to impress a woman.
Allen pleaded guilty to unlawful distribution of a controlled substance and fraudulently practicing medicine, both third-degree felonies, and unlawful and unprofessional conduct, a class A misdemeanor. Six other charges were dropped in exchange for his guilty pleas.
Allen was ordered to return Jan. 10, 1994, before 3rd District Judge Glenn Iwasaki to be sentenced.
Prosecutors said Allen also appeared in surgical scrubs and a lab coat at a Salt Lake-area hospital and demanded to receive a physician's parking pass. He is also accused of walking into the restricted surgical areas of a clinic and asked to sit in during procedures.