Genelle L. Trefelner, admitted to pilfering pills.

A Fort Pierce woman was arrested after she admitted she had been pilfering pills from a Walgreens where she worked as a pharmacy tech, deputies say.

On Thursday St. Lucie County Sheriff’s deputies were called to a Walgreens in the 2500 block of Virginia Avenue, where a loss prevention officer said she had been interviewing 30-year-old Genelle L. Trefelner about the missing pills.

According to deputies, Trefelner stole more than 3,000 pills of 2210 hydrocodone, oxycodone, and aprazolam, also known as Xanax. Trefelner said she stole and then sold the pills, a sheriff’s report states. The total cost of the pills was $4,709, deputies said.

Trefelner faces charges of grand theft and trafficking in and possession of prescription drugs.

By Ana X. Ceron, Palm Beach Post staff writer

Tags: arrest, hydrocode, oxycodone, pills, xanax

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