(Stillwater, Okla.) — A former Cushing Walmart pharmacy employee has been charged with stealing about 1,000 pills of the prescription painkilling drug, hydrocodone, and about $1,000 in cash from the store during a three-month period.
Drumright resident Janet Lynn Graves, 45, whose first name is listed as Jana on some court documents, remains free on $2,500 bond pending a Feb. 6 court appearance at which she can ask for a preliminary hearing.
Cushing Police Officer Lucas Armenta was sent to the Walmart store on Highway 33 about 1 p.m. Dec. 2, 2011, on a report of an embezzlement, according to his affidavit.
The Cushing store’s asset protection manager, Corey Hinson, said that he sat in that day on an interview with Graves that was conducted by Eric Bryan, the asset protection manager at Walmart’s Shawnee store, the affidavit said.
“Corey Hinson stated that Jana Graves admitted that she was taking about $30 each time. Corey Hinson stated that Jana Graves admitted to taking five to eight hydrocodone pills on Dec. 1, 2011,” the affidavit alleged.
“Corey Hinson stated that Jana Graves stated she took about four to five pills every time she filled a script,” the affidavit alleged.
“Corey Hinson stated that Jana Graves said that she had a prescription for hydrocodone. Corey Hinson stated that Jana Graves stated that she had taken five hydrocodone on Dec. 1, 2011, and three of them were the store’s pills,” the affidavit alleged.
Bryan, the asset protection manager at Walmart’s Shawnee store, “stated that Corey Hinson showed him video of Jana Graves taking money out of the pharmacy register and placing the money in her pocket,” the affidavit alleged.
“Eric Bryan stated that Corey Hinson told him some hydrocodone had come up short in the pharmacy audit.
“Eric Bryan stated that Jana Graves admitted to taking money out of the register,” the affidavit alleged.
“Eric Bryan stated that Jana Graves told him that she would take four to five pills when she would fill a prescription,” the affidavit alleged.
“Eric Bryan stated that Jana Graves told him that it could have been 700 pills that she had taken over four months,” the affidavit alleged.
The following day, Graves was interviewed at the Cushing Police Department by Officer Armenta, the affidavit said.
“Jana Graves told me that she took money out of the register,” and said it was not an everyday thing, the Cushing police officer alleged in his affidavit.
“Graves told me that she started doing this in October of 2011 and has been doing it off and on since then,” the officer alleged in his affidavit.
“Graves told me that she took the money because she was in a financial bind and her son needed some money. Graves told me that she would take $20-$25 at a time, and sometimes it would be $5-$10,” the officer alleged in his affidavit.
“Graves told me that she was unsure of the amount that she had taken, but she told me around $150 is what she thinks she took,” the officer alleged in his affidavit.
“Jana Graves did admit to taking 7.5mg Lortab and Lortab 10. Graves told me that it was not an everyday thing taking the Lortab pills,” the officer alleged in his affidavit.
“Graves told me that about 10 months ago she got prescribed Lortab and then for a couple of months she got off. Graves told me about four months ago, she started filling her prescription back up and that is when she started taking pills from the pharmacy,” the officer alleged in his affidavit.
“Graves told me that sometimes she would take five pills and sometimes it would only be two or three pills at a time from the pharmacy. Graves told me sometimes she would take pills two or three times a week,” the officer alleged in his affidavit.
“Graves told me that she would count extra pills when she was filling up someone else’s prescription,” the officer alleged in his affidavit.
“Graves told me she would take the extra pills and put them in her pocket. Graves told me that the last time she had taken any pills was on Dec. 1, 2011. Graves told me that she thinks that she only took 200 pills out of those four months,” the officer alleged in his affidavit.
If convicted of stealing about 1,000 pills of hydrocodone, an opiod narcotic analgesic, from the Cushing Walmart between Sept. 1 and Dec. 3 of 2011, Graves could be given a 10-year prison term and a $10,000 fine, according to the two-count charge filed by prosecutor Jack Bowyer.
If convicted of embezzling about $1,000 in cash from the Cushing Walmart between Sept. 1 and Dec. 3 of 2011, Graves could be given a five-year prison term, a $5,000 fine and an order to pay restitution, court records show.
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