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

DATE: WEDNESDAY, August 3, 1994                   TAG: 9408030070
SECTION: VIRGINIA                    PAGE: C3   EDITION: METRO 
SOURCE: KATHY LOAN STAFF WRITER
DATELINE: CHRISTIANSBURG                                 LENGTH: Short

STOLEN PAINKILLERS HEADED TO FLEA MARKET?

A trip to Wal-Mart last week turned into a major headache for an Amelia couple when they were charged with shoplifting packages of Tylenol and Advil.

Christiansburg police said they found 297 packages of the headache medications in the couple's car after responding to a shoplifting complaint from Wal-Mart workers

Lt. Doug Marrs said Mildred Story Shultz, 65, has been charged with felony shoplifting, and her husband, Robert Lee Shultz, 56, has been charged with misdemeanor shoplifting.

Marrs said police suspect that the packages were taken out of the store in a handbag. The Shultzes gave written statements, Marrs said, that they had used a similar plan in the past few weeks to take the aspirin substitutes from stores in Galax, Waynesboro, Marion, Abingdon, Fredericksburg, Charlottesville and other localities.

The couple said they would take the 100-count packages to flea markets and sell them, Marrs said.

by CNB