
                         Roanoke Times
                 Copyright (c) 1995, Landmark Communications, Inc.

DATE: WEDNESDAY, September 20, 1995                   TAG: 9509200035
SECTION: CURRENT                    PAGE: NRV-2   EDITION: NEW RIVER VALLEY 
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DATELINE: PULASKI                                LENGTH: Short

PULASKI COUNTY MAN PLEADS GUILTY TO DRUG CHARGE

A former Pulaski pharmacy technician pleaded guilty earlier this month to one charge of obtaining drugs by fraud.

James Richard McClanahan, 51, of Route 1, Pulaski, was given a three-year suspended prison sentence after being convicted of embezzling Tylenol 4, which contains codeine, from Pulaski Drugs last September. Two other charges were not prosecuted as part of a plea agreement, according to Circuit Court Clerk Woody Lookabill.

McClanahan was placed on probation for two years and ordered to pay $100 in restitution.

McClanahan worked at the drug store as a pharmacist's assistant from 1987 until last October. He was on the board of the Pulaski County CADRE, a citizens' anti-drug organization that disbanded last year.

by CNB