A Hot Springs woman was arrested Thursday morning for allegedly stealing or damaging $2,770 in medication and equipment from a clinic last year.
Megan Sharee Taylor, 23, who lists a Tennessee Street address, was taken into custody at around 9:10 a.m. and charged with a felony count of commercial burglary, punishable by up to 10 years in prison, and misdemeanor counts of theft of property and second-degree criminal mischief, both punishable by up to one year in jail.
Taylor remained in custody Friday in lieu of bonds totaling $15,000 and is set to appear in Garland County District Court on June 27.
According to the affidavit, on Dec. 27, 2016, a burglary was reported at CHI St. Vincent Women's Clinic, 200 Werner St. The reporting employee said an unknown suspect had entered the clinic, damaged and stole medication and removed equipment from the facility between midnight Dec. 26 and 7 a.m. Dec. 27.
The employee said $1,800 in medication was removed from a refrigerator and left on a counter to spoil, and $260 in TDAP medication, $110 in flu vaccine and a Doppler machine, valued at $600, were stolen.
Fingerprints were collected from a green deposit folder on the clinic's front desk and sent to the state crime lab for analysis. On May 18, a crime lab report indicated the print collected from the folder belonged to Taylor.
The clinic's manager said Taylor was in the facility as a patient on May 11, 2015, but she would not have had access to the folder where the evidence was collected at that time.
Local on 06/17/2017