Police Say Man Lied to Get Vicodin from Woodbury Dental Clinics

A Farmington man has been charged with illegally obtaining pain pills from two Woodbury dental clinics.

Michael Shawn Sheire, 38, is charged with two felony counts of fifth-degree procurement of drugs by fraud or deceit. Each charge carries a maximum penalty of five years in prison and a $10,000 fine.

According to the criminal complaint, Woodbury police received reports in late September from two dental clinics that Sheire had visited their offices, complaining of tooth pain.

In the first case, Sheire visited Serenity Dental on Sept. 19 and told the dentist that his tooth was painful. He provided insurance information and received a prescription for Vicodin, which he filled the same day at Sam’s Club in Woodbury.

On Sept. 24, Sheire went to Engelbrecht Family Dental with the same complaint and provided the same insurance information. He was given another Vicodin prescription, and again had it filled at Sam’s Club.

Both clinics later discovered that Sheire’s insurance had expired in 2010.

The complaint says an employee of Serenity Dental got a call on Sept. 21 from a man who said he was calling on behalf of his mother-in-law. The man was given a prescription for Vicodin in his mother-in-law’s name, and asked the employee to call in the prescription to Sam’s Club in Apple Valley. However, the Apple Valley pharmacist noted that the name on the prescription had been flagged as a “drug seeker,” so that prescription was not filled.

On Sept. 25, a man called Engelbrecht Family Dental after business hours and claimed that his mother had a cracked tooth, and that she needed pain medication. The employee called in a prescription for Vicodin to the Apple Valley Target; that prescription was picked up by Sheire’s wife, according to court documents.

Woodbury police stopped a car on Sept. 26 and found Sheire, his wife, his mother-in-law and his grandmother-in-law. They asked Sheire’s mother-in-law whether she had recently requested pain medication for dental problems; she said she had not, and that when she needed dental work, she saw a dentist in Burnsville.

Sheire told police that he was addicted to pain pills and that he had gone to “multiple dentists” to get Vicodin, the complaint charges.

Sheire, who was convicted earlier in November of felony aggravated forgery, is scheduled to make an initial appearance on the drug charges Feb. 5 in Washington County District Court.