Three Allen County residents have been sentenced in federal court for conspiring to sell pain pills stolen from a local pharmacy.
Prosecutors in the U.S. Attorney’s Office for the Western District of Kentucky say that 46-year-old Lynn Harper Denton stole hydrocodone pills from her employer, Stovall’s Prescription Shop in Scottsville over a five-month period in 2012. The retail value of the stolen painkillers was nearly $30,000.
A tearful Denton apologized to her family in U.S. District Court in Bowling Green on Thursday before Judge Joseph McKinley sentenced her to eight months of home incarceration followed by two years of probation.
Denton sold the pain pills to Katherine Virginia Rookstool who admitted selling them to Jeffrey Clay Stinson, a street-level dealer. Rookstool also received eight months of home detention followed by probation for two years. Stinson was given a 27-month prison term and three years of supervised release.
