A Passaic County, N.J., man was placed on probation and ordered to pay $12,140 in restitution to Connecticut General Life Insurance Co. for fraudulently using his father’s insurance plan to obtain prescription pain medicine.

David Van Dunk Jr. 35, of Hewitt, N.J., must complete a long-term, in-patient drug rehabilitation program as part of his probation, according to the New Jersey Attorney General’s Office.

Van Dunk pleaded guilty July 20 to theft by deception, a charge contained in an Oct. 7, 2008, Passaic County grand jury indictment.

He admitted that between Jan. 24, 2006, and Nov. 8, 2006, he falsely used his father’s prescription plan to wrongfully obtain prescription medications, including oxycodone, Percocet, morphine sulfate and Endocet. Van Dunk claimed that the medications were for his father when, in fact, they were for himself.

As a result of the fraud, Connecticut General Life Insurance Company paid various pharmacies a total of $12,140 for the prescription medications.