A New Jersey physician’s assistant will pay $4,000 in restitution and fines after pleading guilty to fraudulently obtaining controlled prescription drugs.

Alison Kinlaw, 32, of Bordentown, N.J., made the plea in Mercer County Superior Court on an accusation of third-degree theft by deception, according to Insurance Fraud Prosecutor Greta Gooden Brown.

Her physician’s assistant’s license was suspended in March and she recently paid $1,500 in restitution and $2,500 in civil fines.

Through her plea, Kinlaw admitted that between Jan. 1, 2005 and July 31, 2007, she falsely represented to Aetna Insurance Co. that the various doctors she worked for had prescribed medications for her. An investigation determined that in her position as a physician’s assistant, Kinlaw called prescriptions into local pharmacies, allegedly on behalf of the doctors she worked for, but later admitted that they had not actually authorized the prescriptions.

Kinlaw is scheduled to appear for sentencing May 7.