By Jim Clark

Loss prevention personnel at the Rite-Aid drug store at McGrath Highway reportedly spotted and detained a female shoplifter last week.

According to the their report to police, the woman placed several items from the store into her handbag and then attempted to leave without paying. It was then that store employees stopped the woman and asked her to come with them to the loss prevention office.

When police officers arrived they reportedly searched the bag, as the suspect yelled obscenities at them, and subsequently found three knives, a prescription bottle containing seven white Klonopins, two green Klonopins, six pink Klonodines, drug paraphernalia, and three baggies containing a brown substance which the officers judged to be heroin, police said.

The responding officers report that the suspect, Taylor Campbell, 24, of Cambridge, was in a highly agitated state and behaved in an aggressive and verbally abusive manner.

She was arrested and charged with violation of city ordinance possession of a dangerous weapon, disorderly conduct, possession of a class A drug, possession of a class C drug, and shoplifting by asportation.