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BALLSTON SPA — A Ballston Spa woman who was arrested last fall for stealing drugs at the pharmacy where she worked pleaded guilty Thursday to a felony charge.
Mary B. Murphy worked at the Rite Aid store in Corinth when she was arrested last October after police learned she had been forging documents to get the prescription opioid painkiller hydrocodone, authorities said. She created at least one fake prescription using a customer’s name and local doctor’s name to get the drugs, according to the Saratoga County Sheriff’s Office.
Murphy, 48, pleaded guilty to falsifying business records, a felony, in Saratoga County Court. Judge James Murphy put her on interim probation for a year, to participate in the county’s felony drug treatment court. If she does well, she will spend 5 years on probation. If not, she faces a jail term.
The state Office of Professions website shows her pharmacist license is suspended. She has had a pharmacy license in New York since 1993.