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Tech Charged in Medication Theft

// January 14th, 2009 // Pharmacy General, Pharmacy Technician

The Salem News reports that a pharmacy technician at the Shaughnessy-Kaplan Rehabilitation Hospital has been arrested after police found three bags containing dozens of types of medication in a car outside the hospital Sunday evening.

Wanda Lopez, 24, of 157 Maple St., Danvers, was seen by hospital staff bringing several bags out of the hospital, according to police, who were called by hospital security shortly after 7 p.m. Police found more than 61 different types of medications, from aspirin to Zyprexa, a prescription anti-psychotic, in three bags inside a car registered to her father-in-law, who gave permission for police to search the vehicle. Police do not know what Lopez intended to do with the large amount of medication, said Salem police Lt. Conrad Prosniewski.

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