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ST. ELIZABETHS DRUG THEFT
Ex-Pharmacist Is Sentenced
The former chief pharmacist at the District's St. Elizabeths Hospital for the mentally ill was sentenced yesterday to two years in prison for stealing $95,000 worth of medications from it.
Judge Emmet G. Sullivan also ordered the man, Raymond Jackson, 48, to pay $95,000 in restitution to the city.
Jackson, 48, was chief pharmacist at St. Elizabeths from 2002 to October 2006, when the thefts were discovered, prosecutors said. The stolen drugs were sold, prosecutors said. Jackson, of Waldorf, pleaded guilty Jan. 9 in U.S. District Court to a theft charge
