Houston man charged with testosterone prescription fraud.

A Houston man who authorities said obtained testosterone with a fake prescription has been charged in the case.

Philip Abraham Makdisi, 49, faces a felony charge of obtaining a controlled substance through fraud, according to court documents.

Investigators said he went to CVS Pharmacy at 5725 N. Eldridge on July 14 and used the name of a Houston podiatrist to obtain a prescription for testosterone, a steroid.

The doctor learned of about the alleged con when she received a prescription verification request from the pharmacy for Makdisi, a patient whom she had not seen in years, prosecutors said.

"The prescription was in the patient name of Philip Makdisi and was for the schedule III controlled substance Testosterone," the criminal complaint states. The doctor told investigators that "she is a doctor of podiatry and seldom issues prescriptions for controlled substances and has never authorized prescriptions for testosterone."

The store pharmacist, who identified Makdisi in a photo lineup, remembered the suspect well.

"That guy?" the pharmacist replied when police asked if he knew him. Investigators said the pharmacist described Makdisi as a "huge" man in his 40s "with a bald head and weighing over 300 pounds." He said the suspect "is hard to miss."