ARREST MADE IN 'REFUND' THEFTS.Byline: Alex Dobuzinskis Staff Writer BURBANK - A former pharmacist pharmacist /phar·ma·cist/ (fahr´mah-sist) one who is licensed to prepare and sell or dispense drugs and compounds, and to make up prescriptions. phar·ma·cist n. at a Toluca Lake health center for film and television workers has been arrested on suspicion of making fake refunds to take $374,000 from the cash register over five years, police said. Erin Rodick, 38, of La Caada Flintridge was released on $175,000 bail, police said. The former chief pharmacist at the Motion Picture & Television Fund's Toluca Lake Health Center is scheduled to be arraigned Jan. 13 in Burbank Superior Court. ``There was a weak link in their accounting system in place at the time that allowed this to slip through unnoticed for a long period of time,'' said a Burbank Police Department The Burbank Police Department is the police department serving Burbank, California. Tim Stehr became the Police Chief of the department on August 1, 2007. The previous chiefs were Thomas Hoefel, David Newsham and Glen Bell. detective, Matthew Ferguson
Matthew Ferguson is an actor born on April 3, 1973, in Toronto, Ontario, Canada. He graduated from the Claude Watson School for the Performing Arts. . The Toluca Lake clinic is one of five health centers operated by the fund for current and retired film and television workers. The five centers receive 130,000 outpatient visits a year. Police do not believe any patients were affected by the alleged embezzlement embezzlement, wrongful use, for one's own selfish ends, of the property of another when that property has been legally entrusted to one. Such an act was not larceny at common law because larceny was committed only when property was acquired by a "felonious taking," i. . ``A discrepancy DISCREPANCY. A difference between one thing and another, between one writing and another; a variance. (q.v.) 2. Discrepancies are material and immaterial. in the pharmacy cash accounting was discovered, theft was suspected, and an investigation was made, and the pharmacist in charge, Erin Rodick, was terminated on Oct. 6,'' said MPTF MPTF Motion Picture & Television Fund MPTF Multi-Path Track Fusion spokeswoman Christine Thomas, adding that fund officials contacted Burbank police about their suspicions. Police arrested Rodick on Nov. 24 at another Burbank pharmacy, where she had found work after losing her job with the fund, and booked her on suspicion of grand theft by means of embezzlement. ``The allegations are that she made fraudulent refunds and then kept the money from the cash register,'' Ferguson said, adding that the average ``refund'' was for about $400. ``There wasn't as tight an inventory control as there now might be,'' he said. The Los Angeles Los Angeles (lôs ăn`jələs, lŏs, ăn`jəlēz'), city (1990 pop. 3,485,398), seat of Los Angeles co., S Calif.; inc. 1850. County District Attorney's Office has not filed charges against Rodick, but Ferguson said that is expected to happen before the end of the year. Rodick faces up to five years in prison if convicted. Alex Dobuzinskis, (818) 546-3304 alex.dobuzinskis(at)dailynews.com |
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