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Source: Barre Montpelier Times Argus

Date: 23-Feb-2007

WHITE RIVER JUNCTION (AP) - A pharmacy technician and hospital nursing supervisor face drug charges following state and federal audits that found there were about 5,000 narcotic pills missing from a White River Junction pharmacy.

Patty Ebelt, 44, of Perkinsville, pleaded not guilty Tuesday in Vermont District Court for Windsor County to felony counts of unlawfully dispensing a narcotic drug and embezzlement.

She was released on conditions, including that she not buy or posses drugs without a valid prescription and that she not work in the pharmaceutical field. If convicted, Ebelt could face up to 30 years in prison.

Ebelt's sister-in-law, Jamie Lockwood, 43, a nursing supervisor at Mount Ascutney Hospital in Windsor, has been cited on similar charges.

Chris Waters, director of the Vermont Office of Professional Regulation, said the office summarily suspended Ebelt's license to work as a pharmacy technician.

He said his office would not comment on any action against Lockwood's nursing license unless or until she is arraigned or a judge finds probable cause to support the charges against her.

The investigation began after a routine state audit of narcotics sales at the Corner Drug store in White River Junction turned up discrepancies in inventories of oxycodone and oxycontin pills, authorities said.

Follow-up audits joined by the federal Drug Enforcement Agency found 2,146 hydrocodone pills, which are sold under the name Vicodin, were missing. Further investigation brought the total to about 5,000 missing narcotic tablets with a retail value of more than $28,000, authorities said.