Best-selling NC author in court on drug charges

RALEIGH — Best-selling author Kaye Gibbons is set to appear before a Wake County judge on prescription drug fraud charges.

The “Ellen Foster” novelist is expected to appear in Wake County District Court on Monday morning. The 48-year-old was charged in November with obtaining property by false pretense and
illegal possession of a controlled substance.

An officer said authorities were alerted to a pharmacy when Gibbons tried to pick up the prescription painkiller hydrocodone. Gibbons was released from jail in November after posting $5,500 bail.

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