Roanoke Times
Copyright (c) 1995, Landmark Communications, Inc.
DATE: WEDNESDAY, November 16, 1994 TAG: 9411160145
SECTION: VIRGINIA PAGE: C-3 EDITION: METRO
SOURCE: KATHY LOAN STAFF WRITER
DATELINE: CHRISTIANSBURG LENGTH: Medium
Mildred Story Shultz, 65, waived a preliminary hearing on the two charges Tuesday in Montgomery County General District Court.
Shultz and her husband, Robert Lee Shultz, 56, were charged with shoplifting in July when 297 boxes of Tylenol and Advil were found in their car after police responded to a shoplifting complaint at Wal-Mart.
During an investigation, police learned that several of the boxes came from the Christiansburg Wal-Mart and the nearby Kmart. Police said the medication boxes were taken out of the stores in Mildred Shultz's handbag. The Shultzes gave written statements, police said, that they had used a similar plan to take the aspirin substitutes from Wal-Marts and other stores in Galax, Waynesboro, Marion, Abingdon, Fredericksburg, Charlottesville and other localities.
Police said the Shultzes told them they then would sell the 100-count packages at flea markets.
After a hearing on the Christiansburg charges was continued earlier this year, Christiansburg authorities placed additional larceny charges against the couple for the other thefts.
The charges against Mildred Shultz were felonies because she previously was convicted of two or more larceny charges. Robert Shultz's charges were misdemeanors.
He pleaded guilty Tuesday to the two charges involving the Christiansburg stores. He received 42 days in jail with 30 days suspended.
Each of the Shultzes was found guilty Tuesday of six other misdemeanor thefts from other Wal-Marts. Fines of $25 and 10-day suspended jail sentences were imposed for each of those charges.
by CNB