Texas man pleads guilty to 2022 burglary at Columbia pharmacy
JEFFERSON CITY, Mo. (KMIZ)
A Houston, Texas, man pleaded guilty in federal court on Tuesday to stealing nearly $7,000 in prescription drugs from a Columbia pharmacy.
Reginald Tremayne Jackson, 32, pleaded guilty to one count of the burglary of a business registered with the Drug Enforcement Administration, according to a Tuesday press release.
Jackson – on June 4, 2022 -- broke into the drive-thru window at Kilgore’s Medical Pharmacy on Chapel Hill Road. Once inside the pharmacy, Jackson used a pry tool to force open a locked cabinet that contained prescription medications. Jackson put the prescription bottles in a green-and-white-striped bag, left the pharmacy through the drive-thru window, and got into the rear passenger’s seat of a silver Chevrolet Malibu driven by a codefendant.
Police were able to track the Malibu using a GPS tracking device that had been taken during the pharmacy burglary. Officers located the vehicle at the Ramada Inn on Conley Road, and conducted a traffic stop. Jackson was in the rear passenger seat of the Malibu; he and the driver were arrested, according to the release.
Security video footage from Ramada Inn and the GPS tracking device indicated the vehicle had stopped near the Ramada Inn sign for approximately two minutes prior to the traffic stop, according to the release. Officers found a green-and-white-striped bag with stolen prescription bottles of hydromorphone, methylphenidate, morphine, oxycodone, and oxycontin. Kilgore’s provided a calculated list of the drugs and quantities stolen for a drug loss value of approximately $6,981.
A sentencing hearing was not announced.
