SEBASTIAN — Police investigators said they uncovered a criminal enterprise involving ill-gotten prescription drugs, out-of-state pill smuggling and stolen auto parts when they searched a home last weekend.

Investigators spent 30 hours searching an undisclosed home late Friday and most of Saturday, said Sebastian Officer Steve Marcinik, police spokesman. Eight investigators recovered more than 3,000 pills with a street value of $60,000, as well as $6,500 worth of stolen property and $4,500 cash, investigators said.

“This shows a direct link between theft and the illegal prescription drug business,” Marcinik said.
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VERO BEACH — In a rare criminal case, a jury convicted a Vero Beach man of murder and selling drugs in the drug-overdose death of one of his customers.

William McCartney III, of Vero Beach, was convicted Wednesday of murder and illegally selling drugs, including two capsules of methadone that Nolan Adams, 19, took before dying at his home early Jan. 25, 2005.

Adams died in his bed several hours after buying the potent drugs at McCartney’s apartment along Indian River Boulevard. (more…)

A former Walgreens pharmacy technician has been arrested after police say she befriended an elderly woman and then stole credit cards and prescription drugs from her.
St. Lucie County Sheriff’s officials have charged Melissa Dewey of Bella Vista Way in Port St. Lucie with multiple crimes including grand theft from the elderly, trafficking in oxycondone and fraudulent use of ID and credit card.
They say Dewey first ingratiated herself to Dianne Birnbaum about six months ago when Birnbaum called her Walgreens pharmacy requesting if the drug store made home deliveries.

Birnbaum told investigators Dewey, a pharmacy technician, answered the phone, told Birnbaum that Walgrees does not make deliveries, but offered to drop off Birnbaum’s Xanax prescription on her way home. (more…)

JENSEN BEACH — A man accused of robbing three people inside a Jensen Beach apartment is behind bars after Martin County deputies found him shortly after the break in.

Just before 12:30 a.m. on Thursday, Casey K. Kirkbride knocked on the apartment in the 2000 block of Northeast Collins Circle, where friends let him inside, according to a Martin County Sheriff’s report. (more…)

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. (more…)