A 56-year-old grandmother spent a weekend in the Cayuga County Jail after a doctor made an error on a drug prescription.

Defense attorney Charles Thomas said Auburn police charged Patricia Rigdon with possessing a forged prescription on March 11, but it turned out that the prescription called for too many pills because a doctor had made a mistake.

Thomas said the felony charge was dismissed Wednesday because of that mistake.

Rigdon said a police officer approached her in the Rite Aid drugstore in Auburn while she waited for the pharmacist to fill a prescription for her husband and accused her of giving the pharmacist a forged prescription.

Rigdon denied the accusation and told the officer to talk to her husband’s doctor to confirm the mistake. The pharmacist told the officer that the doctor had made mistakes on prescriptions in the past, Rigdon said, but that police didn’t check with the doctor.

“If the police officer who arrested me had called the doctor, he would have found it was an error on the doctor’s part,” Rigdon said. “We could have resolved it right then and there.”