A hospital employee has been charged after the alleged theft of prescription drugs in the state’s Hunter region.

It’s alleged about 4.25am on Sunday 7 April 2013, a 37-year-old man who was employed by a hospital on View Street, Cessnock, entered the premises and took a large quantity of prescription medicine.

Other staff members noticed the theft the following morning, and notified police from Central Hunter Local Area Command who launched an investigation into the incident.

Yesterday (Wednesday 24 April 2013), officers from Central Hunter and Newcastle City Local Area Command’s executed a search warrant at a home in Broadmeadow.

A 37-year-old man was arrested at the address and taken to Waratah Police Station, where he was charged with:

–         Break, enter and steal;

–         Larceny;

–         Larceny as a clerk/servant;

–         Three counts of furnish false information to licensee.

He was released on conditional bail and is due to appear before Newcastle Local Court on Wednesday 15 May 2013.