Veterans prescriptions stolen... right from the mail.
And a postal worker... is under arrest.
Rutherford County deputies say a man used his job at the post office... To steal prescriptions from the VA... Now... he's charged with more than 150-crimes.
Kristen Nastasia has more:
It's the face of a crafty criminal according to deputies...
Now 35-year-old Brandon McDade is facing 155-charges in all.... ranging from felony accessing government computers... to embezzlement... and fraud.
Rutherford County Sheriff Jack Conner says McDade used to work at the license plate office in Forest City... Here he learned the computer system so well he was still using it.
He also had a collection of prescription meds... investigators say weren't his.
Working at the Shelby Post Office... they say.. .he swiped Veterans meds coming from the VA... and sold them instead.
Now McDade is sitting in the Rutherford County Jail on the highest bond this sheriff has ever seen... one-point-six million dollars...
Deputies say a very sharp con man... now behind bars.
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