In a new twist to Florida's pill mill problem, an area arrest may have exposed a dangerous new method that thieves use to get prescription drugs.

Kareem Nicholas was arrested Thursday night for forging and using bogus prescriptions to get Xanax at an East Colonial Drive Walgreens pharmacy. The prescription looked legit, with Dr. Naglaa Abdel-al's name and all of her licensing codes required by the state.

Dr. Abdel-al said investigators were told this has happened recently to five or six Orlando-area doctors.

"He said that he bought the script from somebody, and somebody had got ahold of them," Dr. Abdel-al said.

Nicholas was trying to get 2 milligrams of Xanax at the pharmacy -- that's seven times what a doctor would prescribe for someone who really needed it.

Orange County investigators said Nicolas took bogus prescriptions to Winn-Dixie and Walgreens before he was caught.

An alert clerk called Dr. Abdel-al at Colonial Medical Practice Pain Management Clinic for verification.

The biggest red flag: the number to the office was incorrect. Abdel-al said she didn't think any of her employees were behind it.

Investigators believe the suspect somehow got a real prescription from one of the doctor's real patients, then recreated it on the computer, made an untold number of copies. He then wrote his own prescriptions, and even signed the doctor's name, investigators said.

"Is this the new way people are going to start getting these pills? I think so, I think so," Abdel-al said.

Nicolas refused to tell investigators where he got the original prescription, or how much he paid.

He did tell investigators that if he was going to jail, someone would need to care for his 9-year-old brother, who he had left home alone.

"It's very scary, very scary," Abdel-al said.

One investigator said this is why pharmacist have to be so alert.

WFTV is working to find out how much Xanax Nicholas was able to get before he was caught.

He is now in the Orange County jail on a $5,000 bond.