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MILTON - The former Milton Moose bartender whose charges that she embezzled funds there were dropped last November got picked up by State Police in Milton on Thursday after allegedly being on the run from Gilmanton police for three months in an Oxycodone prescription scam.

Sara Scovill, 30, of 29 School St., Apt. 3, Milton, was at home when State Police arrived at her door around 1 p.m., but refused to come out of the her residence, said Gilmanton Police Sgt. Matt Currier today. He said he’d gotten a tip Scovill was living at the School Street address after having been trying to arrest her in the Oxycodone incident for three months.

Currier said he was on the phone with State Police during the standoff, which ultimately prompted Milton Police Chief Richard Krauss to call Milton Elementary School and Nute High and Middle School to place the facilities on a soft lockdown.

Krauss said he made the order because of the close proximity of the standoff and the schools, plus he didn’t want to have Nute students being released at the end of the school day if the incident were still unresolved.

Scovill finally emerged from her second floor apartment without incident and was taken into custody and remanded to the Belknap County Jail where she was held on $5,000 cash bail pending her arraignment on Friday, during which her cash bail was converted to $500 personal recognizance.

Scovill is charged with filing a false report to law enforcement and unsworn falsification, both Class A misdemeanors punishable by up to a year in county jail.

A trial is set for May 19 in Laconia District Court.

Scovill, formerly of 381 Mountain Road, Gilmanton, is alleged to have reported to Gilmanton Police Chief Joseph Collins that her Oxycodone prescription for 150 30mg tablets had been stolen late last year. Police say she tried to fill the “stolen” prescription at a Walmart pharmacy in Dover on Jan. 7, and was videotaped. The Dover pharmacist reported the incident.

Currier said police immediately got a warrant for her arrest but he’d been unable to catch up with her as she had left Gilmanton and her whereabouts were unknown until the tip last week.

Scovill was charged with embezzling funds from the Milton Moose club in October 2012. Milton Police alleged she had stolen more than $1,500 from the lodge.

Strafford County Prosecutors dropped the case last November, saying the embezzlement case would’ve been difficult to prove.

 

 

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