Police: Woman crawled through Kmart ceiling to steal drugs
http://www.wisn.com/news/police-woman-crawled-through-kmart-ceiling-to-steal-drugs/32891798
Stephanie Butler, 30, is charged with burglary, four counts of drug possession, child neglect and theft.
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According to court documents, officers were called to the store, located at 1450 Summit Ave. in Oconomowoc, for a report of a child left alone in a vehicle around 9:55 p.m. Wednesday.
Officers found a 2-year-old child alone in the vehicle. They were able to enter through the moon roof and get to the child.
Police questioned store employees, who reported seeing Butler enter and exit the store several times earlier in the evening.
While officers were searching the store for Butler, an alarm went off near the pharmacy, and officers saw her walking toward the front of the store.
Officers said she had 18 pill bottles from the pharmacy on her at the time. Police said it was mostly morphine.
A store manager told investigators that the pharmacy was closed at the time, and she found a ladder leading to a ceiling crawl space, as well as a hole in the pharmacy ceiling.
“With drug addictions, we’re seeing people become bolder and bolder with their actions, and what they’re willing to do and not willing to do to get their fix of drugs,” Oconomowoc police Capt. Ron Buerger said.
Officers said she was lethargic at the time of her arrest and appeared to be under the influence of a controlled substance.
She’s in the Waukesha County Jail, and police are review Kmart surveillance video.
If convicted, Butler faces up to 12 years in prison on the burglary charge, and up to five years in prison on each of the narcotics charges.
This wasn’t the first time Butler’s been arrested, accused of feeding a drug addiction.
As a teller at Waukesha State Bank, prosecutors charged her in March with pocketing nearly $22,000 from customer accounts.
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And where did she first get addicted to the morphine? A “legitimate” Rx from a doctor too lazy to wean the patient off once started. Easier to feed them pills than deal with the problem. The system is set up that the doctor has ALL the power on prescriptions, and when you see all the drug addicted people on narcotics and adderall there is only one place to look. When you shirk your responsibility as the learned one in a doctor patient relationship and just write for whatever the patient wants for money, you are just a dealer at that point.
And you are a douche.
John… Addiction is a mental health issue.. probably by the time that this woman has reached… she has already addicted to Nicotine and alcohol… you made the quantum leap that her abuse of opiates began with a legal prescription… the article does not state that…> 50% of people who started abusing opiates never had a prescription for the medication.. they got it from friends, or other illegal sources. Addicts each have their “drug of choice”… for some it is Nicotine… for some it is alcohol… for some it is food… for some it is gambling… for some it is opiate based drugs.. for the last 100 yrs.. we have had 1%-2% of the population abusing some substance – other than alcohol & Nicotine –
You’re entitled to your own opinions. You are not entitled to your own facts
John, Yes many addicts start out as patients however a large chunk have never set foot in a doctor’s office for the purpose of obtaining pills. That said there is a lack of understanding addiction in pain management clinics. Many will terminate a patient who exhibits symptoms of addiction. This just pushes the problem out of their door and into the streets. PM clinics need to work hand in hand with mental health professionals to monitor patients for addiction and instead of terminating patients they need to help them get treated for their addiction.; Even 1100% legitimate patients who are on high doses of opioid pain meds can go into withdrawal at the stopping of their scripts. They have become dependent upon the drugs which is different than addicted to them. Either way the two step process of mental health help and weaning from their narcotics when done together can help alleviate this issue. Even those who are on opioid meds for a short time such as after a surgery etc can exhibit withdrawal symptoms when their pain medication is cut off cold turkey without weaning them back down. This sudden withdrawal can lead to a true addiction as they try to find anything to ease their symptoms, often turning to street drugs such as Heroin.
This is why pharmacists are reluctant to continue feeding peoples’ addictions by filling narcotic prescriptions.
Stupid response
Ok. So let’s scapegoat this woman.
Lock her away forever.
Separate her from her 2year old
Or…..
Get her the treatment she needs, and use the law as leverage to get it done.
Criminal or Sick Human being, mother, and someone Daughter.
Which?
Not since we got tuna half million people locked up for drug crimes we can’t be all that proud of our result can we? Let’s try something new!!
“Got tuna” lol
2 1/2 million.
-:)