1 Canadian pharmacist steals nearly 48,000 pills from employer

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A pharmacist charged with stealing more than 33,000 pills from the Safeway pharmacy in Okotoks, Alta., was disciplined 10 years earlier after even larger quantities of narcotics went missing from a Shoppers Drug Mart in Calgary and a Pharmasave in Canmore

In a written decision on the matter, the licensing body for pharmacists said 39,733 tablets of narcotics "were dispensed pursuant to prescriptions that did not exist" from the Shoppers Drug Mart pharmacy at Shawnessy Towne Centre, which Rogalsky owned up until December 2003.

Okotoks RCMP announced dozens of charges this week against Leanne Rogalsky, 52, including fraud, theft, breach of trust and trafficking in a controlled substance.

The Mounties allege she created fake patient records and then used fake prescriptions under those patients' names to take the narcotics from the pharmacy.

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The decision also notes that Rogalsky was "alone at the pharmacy" when many of the narcotics went missing — including Demerol, Oxycocet, Ativan, and Dexedrine — and she was "not able to provide any explanation" for the missing drugs or altered inventory records.

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