Administrator charged with stealing student prescriptions
May 9, 2008
New Jersey vice principal allegedly stole ADHD medications from school nurse's office.
A vice principal at Gateway Regional High School in Woodbury Heights, N.J., has been charged with stealing students' prescription drugs from the nurse's office. Philip Bevilacqua, 41, middle school vice principal at the 7th-through-12th-grade school, was arrested following a six-week investigation. Police say the medications taken were Adderall and Ritalin. Both drugs are stimulants used to treat attention-deficit hyperactivity disorder (ADHD).
