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Rogue River woman gets 15 months for pharmacy thefts Sandra Blanco Friday Feb 3, 2017 at 4:37 PM Feb 3, 2017 at 5:06 PM Ryan Pfeil Mail Tribune @RyanPfeil A Rogue River woman found guilty of stealing about $100,000 from the pharmacy where she worked over a two-year period will spend 15 months in prison. Judge Tim Barnack sentenced Sandra Blanco Friday in Jackson County Circuit Court. The sentence includes two years of post-prison supervision. Restitution is considered paid because of a piece of real property transferred to Garvin Hamilton, the owner of Rogue River Pharmacy, according to Jackson County Deputy District Attorney David Orr.  Blanco pleaded guilty to four counts of aggravated theft and two counts of first-degree theft Jan. 18, according to court records. She does not have any other criminal history. The charges stem from numerous thefts between September 2012 and June 2015 from a Rogue River Pharmacy cash register Blanco manned. Blanco worked part-time, roughly 20 hours a week. She was eventually caught on camera. "This wasn't just an isolated incident," Hamilton told Barnack in court. "She worked for me for many years, and these were probably hundreds of different thefts that occurred." Hamilton has owned the business since 2004. The thefts had a ripple effect, he said, forcing him to fire a pharmacy manager and abandon his plans to move to the northern Oregon coast with his family, who had to move back. He said the incidents have set him back significantly and also impacted his employees. "The theft happened, but there were these other things that corresponded to it, as well," Hamilton said. Blanco offered a tearful apology in court. "You didn't deserve any of this to happen to you," she told Hamilton. "It was wrong that I did that. I knew you had plans, and I treated you badly." Barnack told Blanco that her actions have impacted numerous people, including former co-workers, their families and her own family. "All these people. It's just this amazing, amazing thing how this affects so many people," Barnack said. "I have to visualize it, and I cannot give justice to them, and that's frustrating." — Reach reporter Ryan Pfeil at 541-776-4468 or [email protected]. Follow him at www.twitter.com/ryanpfeil.