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A Shasta County jury convicted Tuesday a 27-year-old woman, who worked as a pharmacy technician in Redding, of one felony count of obtaining a controlled substance by fraud.
The jury also found her guilty of misdemeanor embezzlement.
Stephanie Rae Heathcote, who is to be sentenced Jan. 10, was a pharmacy technician at Rite Aid on Eureka Way, the Shasta County District Attorney’s Office said on its Facebook page.
The DA’s office said she stole stole 12 hydrocodone pills and four Tamiflu pills from the pharmacy on April 2.
Heathcote took the hydrocodone pills from the prescription wall, put them in her pants and took them home, the DA’s office said.
Rite Aid conducted an investigation and Heathcote admitted to stealing the hydrocodone pills and Tamiflu pills to Rite Aid loss prevention investigators and a Redding police officer, the DA’s office said.
The case was prosecuted by deputy DA Dang Vu.