Kaye Gibbons - Best Selling Novelist Faces Drug Charges
RALEIGH - Novelist Kaye Gibbons was arrested Sunday on charges of obtaining a prescription drug through fraud.
The author of the acclaimed novel "Ellen Foster" is accused of obtaining by false pretense hydrocodone pills from Kerr Drug at North Hills and illegal possession of a controlled substance, both felonies. Gibbons, 48, was released from jail after posting $5,500 secured bond.
Police Lt. David Linthicum said he assumed that Gibbons was arrested at the pharmacy when she went to pick up the drugs.
Gibbons was arrested in August on similar charges, according to a criminal history report. She is scheduled for trial in December on the earlier charges, including three counts of obtaining controlled substances by misrepresenting herself as a doctor, three counts of obtaining property by false pretense and one count of attempting to obtain property by false pretense.
With seven best-sellers, Gibbons is one of the best-known writers in North Carolina. She has been open in past interviews about her problems with emotional instability and reliance on prescription drugs. In an interview in 2005, she said that she had been misdiagnosed as manic-depressive.
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