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Police bust former Miss Russia in NY
Published: 19 May, 2010, 16:32
Edited: 13 August, 2010, 03:11
A former Miss Russia and Miss Universe semi-finalist is facing charges of illegal drug possession, forgery and criminal impersonation of a physician in New York.
She was charged Tuesday after having allegedly stolen doctor's prescription pads and faking them to buy painkillers. Police arrested the former beauty queen, Anna Malova, 38 – a doctor in her native Russia – Wednesday as she walked out of a pharmacy in New York, Fox 5 reports.
The pharmacist told Fox 5 that Malova's doctor believed she had stolen a prescription pad from him and written out fake prescriptions for addictive painkillers.
Fox 5 alleges they have uncovered that Malova was facing charges of petty theft less than three months ago.
Malova, from the Russian city of Yaroslavl, participated in quite a number of beauty contests in Russia before and after she was titled Miss Russia aged 26. A medical doctor in her homeland, she is not licensed to practice medicine in the US.
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Yeah, put sick depressed people in prison, excellent plan. Go America.
Puh-lease. The number of doctors (not to mention waitresses, bartenders, etc.) who have addictions in NYC is no big news. These are high-stress jobs. She's just not licensed as a physician to self-medicate, and happens to have been a beauty queen 12 years ago. So this makes a great non-story.