Two doctors are among 10 people who were charged in connection with alleged prescription fraud in Lehigh County on Friday.

The charges were the result of a joint investigation by the state Attorney General's Bureau of Narcotics Investigation and Drug Control, according to a press release put out Friday afternoon.

Three of the people were employed at healthcare facility. Six of the other defendants were involved with a prescription drug ring that operated in the Allentown area between Dec. 2016 and January.

-A 41-year-old doctor at St. Luke's was charged after he allegedly stole fentanyl from a patient's room and injected himself with it at the hospital.

The doctor, Scott Keeney, of Lower Saucon Township, has been charged with felony prescription fraud and drug possession. He is no longer employed by St. Luke's according to the press release.

-Police also charged a former employee of Good Shepherd Specialty Hospital in Bethlehem. 47-year-old Jennifer Quimby of Palmer Township is accused of diverting patients' medicines to herself.

She faces charges of prescription fraud, forgery, possession of a controlled substance, deception, and falsifying reports.

-Kate Peters, 40, of Lynn Township, was accused of fraudulently acquiring 1,200 50 mg tablets of tramadol over a two-month period. She got the drugs from veterinary clinics and said they were for her dog.

Tramadol is an opioid painkiller.

-39-year-old Faton Bilali, a doctor from Allentown, was charged with prescription fraud, forgery, deception, and possession of a controlled substance.

He allegedly wrote prescriptions for adderall, oxycodone and other narcotics for himself and his mother, who was not his patient.

-Six people were charged with a scheme to obtain Percocet between Dec. 9, 2016 and Jan. 13.

18-year-old Charles Way of Allentown allegedly acquired a prescription pad from a pain management clinic where his mother was employed. Five other people, allegedly filled the prescriptions at pharmacies in Allentown, obtaining 120 pills. Way himself obtained 220 pills.

Five others were charged: Leevon Riddick, 29; Jesus Alvalle, 19; Crystal Santos, 26; and Kayleen Rivera, 19, all of Allentown; and Keisha Foster, 20, of Whitehall.

Attorney General Josh Shapiro stated, "This roundup in the Lehigh Valley, including the arrest of doctors and medical staff, shows no one is above the law in our fight against the heroin epidemic. Today's arrests prove what I've said all along: I'll go after drug dealers on the street corner, in boardrooms and doctor's offices and hospitals. Communities are safer when law enforcement works together, and we thank District Attorney Jim Martin and local police for their cooperation."