Drug Theft Cases

Local authorities are working several cases of stolen medicines. Wilkesboro Police arrested a local man after witnesses say he got into a man's car parked in the county courthouse lot and stole the owner's freshly-refilled supply of painkillers. 120-pills each of hydrocodone and Xanax were stolen as witnesses looked on. When the car owner heard one witness ask why Spence Markle had gotten into a car that wasn't his, he took off running after him. Markle got away, but was captured by deputies a short time later.



Sheriff deputies say prescription drugs disappeared late last week from a Hays home. Carol Billings called deputies after she noticed almost a month's supply of medicine for her live-in boyfriend, Charles Sparks, were taken. While she doesn't have any firm suspect information, Sparks belives a family member may be to blame.



A Hays man reports a thief broke into his house Sunday while he was gone to church and stole his medications. The burglar had broken out the back window, and once inside stile two bottles containing prescription painkillers. Those were the only things taken, in spite of other valuables being plainly displayed close by. Based on the short list of people who knew where he kept the drugs, the man told deputies he believes his son was the thief.