Drug Thieves Scamming Stow Businesses

Two Stow businesses have been hit by thieves in search of powerful prescription painkillers within the last month.

The Stow-Glen Retirement Village reported dozens of missing pain pills to Stow Police April 3.

The retirement complex management told police that more than 30 100-milligram pills of Oxycotin, more than 30 80-milligram Oxycodone pills and 17, 15-milligram Oxycontin pills were found missing from a medicine cart, according to Stow Police.

The pills were taken some time between 7 p.m. March 30 and 7 a.m. March 31.

No one has been charged in the theft, which is considered a fourth-degree felony because of the drugs that were taken.

Another unknown drug thief hit the CVS on Graham Road near State Route 8.

Management at CVS told Stow Police that a woman used a fake doctor's prescription to obtain 120 Oxycodone hydrochloride pills. 

That theft happened March 16 but charges have not yet been filed.