Pharmacy owner arrested for 2nd time in company theft

Posted: Published on May 4th, 2012

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CADDO PARISH, LA (KSLA) -

The owner of a local pharmaceutical distribution company who was arrested two years ago for stealing from her customers was arrested for the second time Thursday.

Caddo Sheriff Steve Prator says 62-year-old Janice Lawrence owns USA Wholesale. Prator says Lawrence recently completed a community program after being arrested in 2010 for similar crimes. Prator says detectives learned of several more pharmacies that had been defrauded by Lawrence between 2009 and 2010 while she was in the program.

Detectives say Lawrence used bank information belonging to her customers to make unauthorized charges that profited her business. Her most recent arrest was for charging a total of $11,622 to the credit cards of four pharmacies for products that were never ordered or delivered. Those pharmacies were Turnage Drug Store in Mississippi, Lancaster Pharmacy in South Carolina, Adcock's Medicine Chest in Texas and White's Pharmacy in Alaska.

Lawrence was booked into the Caddo Correctional Center on four counts of felony theft.

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