A CVS pharmacy technician is facing multiple felony charges after she allegedly helped herself to drugs at work and to a Villager’s credit card.
Chelsea Lynn Ilg, 28, who lives in the Quarters Apartments in Lady Lake, was arrested Tuesday evening at the CVS Pharmacy on County Road 466 in The Villages.
Ilg is also suspected of stealing a 77-year-old Villager’s credit card and using it to pay for a room at the TownePlace Suites in Spanish Springs. Ilg allegedly stayed in Room 229 with her out-of-state boyfriend.
She allegedly took the credit card from the 77-year-old woman’s dresser drawer at her home in the Village of Palo Alto.
The woman had been contacted by her credit card company on April 5 after suspicious charges were detected, including a room at the Villages hotel. The woman went to the TownePlace Suites and confronted Ilg, according to an arrest report from the Sumter County Sheriff’s Office. Ilg denied using the credit card but “was a frequent visitor to (the woman’s) residence, and had ample opportunity to steal said credit cards,” the arrest report said.
While that case was being investigated, Ilg was taken into custody on multiple drug theft charges.
At 5:22 p.m. Tuesday, a Sumter County sheriff’s deputy responded to the CVS Pharmacy on County Road 466 where a CVS district manager was investigating the theft of drugs at several local CVS stores. Ilg is suspected of stealing Hydrocodone-Acetaminophen, Xanax and Morphine Sulphate. Ilg’s two purses were found in the CVS break room and some of the stolen pills were found in the purses, according to the arrest report.
When she was being booked at the Sumter County Detention Center, Ilg was asked if she had any contraband in her possession. She said she did not, but a 30 mg Morphine Sulphate pill was discovered hidden under her foot.
She was booked on $13,000 bond.
