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A former employee at a residential treatment program stole more than 700 prescription pills from a locked cabinet, authorities said.
Police charged J. Flaxington, 32, with the thefts after an investigation began in February, according to a police report filed Wednesday in Framingham District Court.
Employees of the Alexander Street Program called police on Feb. 26 after they did a quarterly audit of the medication they keep in a locked cabinet. The medication is for residents of the program and is only accessible by employees, according to the report.
Employees discovered more than 700 pills missing, including lorazepam, clonazepam, gabepentin, tramadol, diazepam and one oxycodone pill.
Flaxington was an employee of the program from last May through this January, but was fired due to poor job performance, the director of the program told police.
Employees believed it was Flaxington who was responsible for the missing pills. They said she had signed out the pills, but there was no record they were given to anyone or destroyed.
When police interviewed Flaxington, she said the pills were expired and she destroyed them. By program rules, it would take the signature of two people to destroy the pills. She said the pills were in a white plastic bag and had no idea what they were.
“She admitted she didn’t follow procedure,” police wrote in the report.
Program employees said the pills are not kept in a plastic bag and are not mixed together. They said pills would have been easily identifiable by anyone, police wrote in the report.
Police did not arrest Flaxington. Instead, they obtained a summons for her to appear in Framingham District Court.
Police charged Flaxington, of Worcester, with larceny of a drug, obtaining a drug by fraud, larceny of property worth more than $1,200 and three counts of possession of a Class C substance.
Flaxington was scheduled to be arraigned Wednesday in Framingham District Court. Results of the arraignment were not available.